Working Conditions

Workers prepare turkeys to be chilled in Orefield, Pennsylvania.

Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It

The people who do the dirty work of killing and processing animals hold up our food system. Trump is putting them in danger.

Aug 20, 2025 / Alice Driver

US cofounder and the former president of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls (C) addresses a press conference on the Freedom Flotilla ship “Handala” ahead of the boat's departure for Gaza at a port in Syracuse, Sicily, southern Italy, on July 13, 2025.

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

Aug 15, 2025 / Ella Fanger

An Amazon worker affiliated with the Teamsters on strike at a company delivery hub in Maspeth, Queens, last year.

To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers

The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy.

Aug 14, 2025 / Osita Nwanevu

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds up a photo of herself as a teen.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Are Again Being Wronged by Donald Trump’s Circus Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Are Again Being Wronged by Donald Trump’s Circus

Partisan politics is making a travesty of justice.

Jul 18, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is Our War!”

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold.

Jul 17, 2025 / David Bacon

Rideshare drivers on strike near O'Hare International Airport

In Chicago, a Coalition of Unions, Community Organizers, and Drivers Have Forced Uber to Come to the Table In Chicago, a Coalition of Unions, Community Organizers, and Drivers Have Forced Uber to Come to the Table

As the tech industry moves increasingly into alignment with the far right, the issue of worker power has never been more important. The Chicago campaign offers some key lessons.

Jul 16, 2025 / Will Tanzman and Lori Simmons

Caritas Christi CEO Ralph de la Torre at Norwood Hospital.

Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch

And the price the rest of us pay—in money and in blood.

Jul 14, 2025 / Chuck Collins

Members of the International Association of Machinists walking the picket line on Friday, May 23, 2025. In Thornhill v. Alabama, the court held that picketing is an “indispensable” right.

Remembering Labor’s Constitutional Rights Remembering Labor’s Constitutional Rights

The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those protections unless labor fights for them.

Jul 10, 2025 / Jennifer Abruzzo and Jay Swanson

Workers fulfill orders at an Amazon fulfillment center.

Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate

While chairman Jeff Bezos enjoys his honeymoon, Amazon workers are in line for record injuries and hospitalizations over the four-day summer sale.

Jul 8, 2025 / Jonathan Rosenblum

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon

Trump’s defense secretary loves taking selfies while presiding over administrative anarchy.

Jul 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

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