Move to a 4-Day Workweek?
Not for Lower Pay! By Sonali Kolhatkar Dolly Parton’s signature song “9 to 5,” and the 1980s sitcom of the same name reflect a quintessentially American hustle culture of working 40 hours a week in…
Labor
How to Win a Green New Deal in Your State
By Ashley Dawson New York just became the first US state to pass a major Green New Deal policy. After four years of organizing, the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) is now in the New…
Workers in the South Are Winning
By Tom Conway Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them….
‘Not a Radical Idea’
Sanders Calls for 32-Hour Workweek with No Pay Cuts By Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders in early May called for a 32-hour workweek with no pay cuts for U.S. employees, pointing to the overwhelmingly positive…
Coercion, Exploitation In Prison Labor
University of Chicago Law School and ACLU produce groundbreaking report Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to…
Building Anti-Carceral Unionism
A Q&A On Local 79’s “Real Re-Entry” Campaign in New York City Han Lu interviews Bernard Callegari Starting in the spring of 2021, the National Employment Law Project teamed up with New York’s Construction &…
Bars to Union Growth
If America had fair laws, 60 million workers would join a union tomorrow By Luke Savage According to data newly published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Labor Relations Board, the number…
It’s Class Warfare
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated. By Michael Lind What was called “the Labor Question” a century…
Strikes Are Stronger Than Laws
There’s a simple reason why the government can’t win unless you let it. By Hamilton Nolan When people get frustrated and petulant, they lash out. So too do governments. When labor unions are looking a…
Unions Have Plenty of Money to Organize—They Just Don’t Spend It
By Hamilton Nolan Many people who are passionate about the labor movement, myself included, have long had the vague but haunting sense that the most powerful institutions in the union world are not doing enough…