Labor

Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time

A conversation with the How to Do Nothing author, Jenny Odell, about her new book, Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock.

Mar 6, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

Garrett Broshuis

How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

Mar 6, 2023 / Feature / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier

FDR and New Dealers in car

The Case Against Privatizing Social Security The Case Against Privatizing Social Security

For the New Deal’s 90th birthday, let’s deliver a cake, not a hand grenade.

Mar 4, 2023 / Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, Harold M. Ickes, and James Roosevelt Jr.

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds Getting to Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds

Workers learn governing power through high-participation negotiations. That’s also how they can get employers to the table.

Mar 4, 2023 / Column / Jane McAlevey

Chris Smalls holds a megaphone leading Starbucks and Amazon labor day protest

Should the Labor Movement Prioritize the Push for Sectoral Bargaining? Should the Labor Movement Prioritize the Push for Sectoral Bargaining?

Larry Cohen argues that the labor movement should seek power not solely in individual workplaces but in entire industries, while Eric Blanc writes that the priority should be union...

Mar 3, 2023 / The Debate / Larry Cohen and Eric Blanc

Wisconsin state Supreme Court candidates Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell, and Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz

“This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race “This Is Our Referendum on Abortion”: Wisconsin’s Critical Race

The race for Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice has quickly become the most important election of the year.

Mar 3, 2023 / John Nichols for The Nation

Sara Nelson addresses demonstrators

Sara Nelson Could Be the Greatest Labor Secretary Since the New Deal Sara Nelson Could Be the Greatest Labor Secretary Since the New Deal

The demand for a fearless labor secretary is as great now as it was in the 1930s, and Nelson is more than ready to meet the moment.

Feb 28, 2023 / John Nichols

Seattle’s Working People Won the Nation’s First Ban on Caste Discrimination

Seattle’s Working People Won the Nation’s First Ban on Caste Discrimination Seattle’s Working People Won the Nation’s First Ban on Caste Discrimination

Many South Asians who have immigrated to the United States have been unable to leave caste-based discrimination behind. A new local law aims to change that reality.

Feb 27, 2023 / Kshama Sawant

A Norfolk Southern Train derails

It’s Time to Talk About Nationalizing America’s Railroads It’s Time to Talk About Nationalizing America’s Railroads

The East Palestine train derailment confirms it: Our rail industry is too important to be left to the corporations.

Feb 23, 2023 / John Nichols

Army-McCarthy hearings

The Absurd Specter of “Woke Communism” The Absurd Specter of “Woke Communism”

Ironically, those decrying woke communism may be loony about “communism,” but they are unintentionally right that capitalism is indeed the problem.

Feb 21, 2023 / Steve Fraser

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