Workers can organize—and have organized—to ensure they can stay off the job until their worksites are safe.
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New Laws for the Fissured Workplace
The pandemic has compelled the government to extend temporary protections to some independent contractors and gig workers, but they need full and permanent coverage.
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Labor Will Win by Championing Everyone
Unions must lead the charge for programs—Medicare for All, comprehensive child and elder care—that are as universal as the pandemic’s threat.
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What Is Not to Be Done
If unions seek to re-create the labor movement of the past, organized labor will die. As capitalism has changed, so must workers’ movements.
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Turning Worker Anger Into Worker Power
The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of millions of workers to the nation—and to the workers themselves. But are unions seizing this opportunity to build a new kind of power?
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How One Local Union Is Doubling Wages for America’s Airport Workers
In a time of labor stagnation, a union has committed massive resources to workplace and political organizing—and has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of low-wage workers.
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The Laws That May Protect Employees From Coronavirus Hazards
Both OSHA and the Taft-Hartley Act give workers the legal right to walk away from dangerous work conditions.
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Like Uber, but for Gig Worker Organizing
Drivers and delivery personnel for app-based employers keep getting squeezed. Now they’re fighting back.
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Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making
While European workers have helped shape their nations’ coronavirus policies, most of their U.S. counterparts have no unions to give them a voice.
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The Postal Workers Strike, 50 Years Later
Two hundred thousand militant postal workers forced the Nixon administration to grant them labor rights. Today, the Trump administration is attempting to take them away.
