In Whiting, Indiana, 800 workers have been locked out for four months, and they say the survival of their union is at stake.
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The Crisis of Care Work
The end of Temporary Protected Status and Trump’s budget cuts make a bad situation worse.
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How America Let Its Workers’ Compensation System Fail
If you’re injured on the job these days, you’re simply out of luck.
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A Great Economy Unless You Have to Work for a Living
The gap between investment income and work income has never been so glaring.
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After Industry Request, OSHA Moves to Roll Back Ladder Safety Regulation
There’s a simple way to prevent most workplace falls off ladders. Corporations don’t want to do it.
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The Dangerous Myth of Flexibility
Uber and Lyft insist it benefits their drivers. In actuality, it benefits Uber and Lyft.
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Activists Target U.S. Ports Where Weapons Leave for Israel
A growing series of labor actions seeks to physically disrupt arms shipments and make it harder for military commerce to move forward.
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Tax AI to Create Jobs
We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it.
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Learn to Code, They Said
Coding was supposed to be a pathway to a high-paying job, but AI is pulling the rug out from young programmers.
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Palantir Gets an Initial $3.9 Million to Spy on Federal Workers
The contract kicks off a Trump administration plan to track workers at the Social Security Administration and Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.