the workplace

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.

You Love Trucks. Do You Love People?

Donald Trump loves trucks, I guess. Also, the trucking industry is poised to be decimated by technological change. Here we have an opportunity.

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.

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.

"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?

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?

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?

Good News–Your Job Is Closed On Christmas

I just walked by a grocery store with a sign in the window saying they would be open until 6:30 p.m. on Christmas. Funny joke! If you’re an employee there, you should know that’s wrong—everything is closed on Christmas.