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What to Do When the Boss Won't Listen

Underpaid and overworked? Disrespected by the boss? When all else fails, you and all your colleagues can print out your salaries and tape them up around the office.

How West Virginia Lost the Workers' Revolution

I had only been in West Virginia for a day when Josh Sword, the head of the state AFL-CIO, told me casually that a revolution is coming. He is not a particularly radical guy. He was just giving an honest, matter-of-fact reading of the political situation. “I don’t know how bad things have to get. In West Virginia, it…

Ivanka Trump's Guide to Finding a Work-Life Balance When You Don't Care About Other Women's Work or Lives

Ivanka Trump would like you to imagine a table.

Honor the Women Who Struggled and Died for Labor Rights By Continuing Their Fight

When a fire broke out on the ninth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York in 1911, 146 garment workers died—123 of whom were women. In the wake of one of the deadliest workplace tragedies in American history, it was the women of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) who worked on the…

Cornell Would Like To Share Some Extremely Unbiased Information About Evil Unions

Today, thousands of graduate students at Cornell University will vote on whether or not to form a union. Fortunately, the school’s deans are on hand to answer all your questions in a distinctly neutral tone of voice.

Hector Figueroa Wants to Make the Democrats Fight Back

There is one reason why building workers in New York City can make a living wage: the Service Employees International Union’s 32BJ local. The union is the size of a small city, it’s vocal, and its president wants a wholesale reimagining of Democratic party politics in the Trump era.

Thrillist Employees Vote Overwhelmingly To Unionize

For the past several weeks, employees at the media company Thrillist have been subject to an anti-union campaign from their management. Today, Thrillist employees voted on whether or not to unionize.

Stop Letting Him Use You For Photo Ops

Big smile. One hand out front for a nice handshake with Mister Trump. His other hand is behind your back, stabbing you. Thanks for the photo, though.

The Dismal Thrillist Anti-Union Campaign

Successful union campaigns have flourished across the digital media industry over the past year and a half. Few have run into more anti-union pushback than the one currently happening at Thrillist. And employees are pissed.

Is Your Chicken Processed By Free Range Humans?

Yesterday, the Senate voted to repeal regulations that required federal contractors to accurately disclose all of their workplace safety violations. Because who would want that?

Meanwhile Freaking Canada Is Doing Some Smart Things

While we’re sitting around arguing about exactly how fast we should descend into permanent decline, our hated neighbors to the north are busy doing all the things that we should be doing.

Yale Shocker: Cosseted Ivy League Deans Hate Scrappy Union Upstarts

Today, more than 300 grad student workers at Yale will vote on whether or not they want to unionize. You may be shocked to learn that the powers that be at this enlightened center of liberal learning are not thrilled!

Time For Unions To Figure Out The Internet

Since the Reagan era, wages have stagnated, unions have declined, and average workers have lost power. If we want any of that to change in the near future, we will have to look… everywhere.

Labor Department Employees Revolt

You can now add the Labor Department to the growing list of US government agencies where workers are speaking out against their new leadership.

"A Kick In The Ass" For Labor: A Union Leader Considers The Age Of Trump

Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the most powerful retail workers union in America, swears he is optimistic. Why?

Are You Prepared?

There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.”

Have Unions Accepted Death?

Every year, the government releases updated numbers on union membership in America. And every year, the number falls. Where is the rage, rage against the dying of the unions?

Unions, Don't Do This

Organized labor has the potential to be one of the great forces for equality and sanity in our nation over the next four years. Orrrrrr, they can do what the building trade unions are doing now.

Have You Worked For Our Incoming Labor Secretary's Fast Food Empire?

Do you work at Hardee’s or Carl’s Jr.? We want to hear from you.

There's Never Been a Better Time to Unionize Amazon

A special request to the labor unions of America: If it’s not too much trouble, could one of you unionize Amazon, fast?

The Entire South Is Going Right-to-Work

Kentucky has its first Republican-controlled legislature in nearly a century. Their first priority: wiping out the last vestige of union security in the South.

NBA, NBAPA Agree On New CBA And Draymond Green Is Also Mad About Something

There will not be another NBA lockout next year, as the NBA and NBAPA reached an agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The deal has not been ratified yet, but Adrian Wojnarowski reports that it will be a seven-year deal. Here’s the NBA’s full release.