Across the country, nurses are fighting for better conditions and higher wages, especially in the midst of the pandemic.
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How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws
California’s Prop 22 could set back labor standards, particularly for nonwhite workers, for decades.
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Trump’s War on Workers
From silencing their voices to depressing their incomes to endangering their lives, the president has consistently abused working Americans.
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What Happened to Milwaukee’s Black Middle Class?
Democrats will need the support of a Wisconsin city battered by deindustrialization and deunionization.
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The Union Difference
How one of America’s strongest locals protects workers in the pandemic
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Anti-Union Progressives
In recent years, a number of institutions that proclaim themselves committed to social justice and enlightenment won’t let their employees unionize.
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State Attorneys General Are Helping Workers in Hard Times
Trump’s administration is AWOL in the fight for worker safety, but a growing number of state attorneys general are focusing on worker rights and protections.
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State of the Unions 2020
On Labor Day 2020, the state of American unions is strong; but an AFL-CIO official finds changing attitudes toward immigrants concerning.
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Kamala Harris’s Uber Test
The vice-presidential nominee did little as a state and local prosecutor as Uber and Lyft rose to prominence. Now California wants to force drivers to be treated as employees, and Harris appears to be on board—for now.
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In California, Child Care Providers Vote to Unionize
43,000 workers who care for the kids of state-subsidized poor families have gone union in the nation’s largest organizing victory in many years.
