Pandemic changes exacerbated long-standing tensions between the company and its workforce.
Working in America
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Community Hospital in Deep-Red Wyoming
After significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tax Breaks Cushion Tesla’s Texas Landing
The company pledges jobs, but the history of economic development incentives shows that many communities give up more than they get.
Posted inPodcasts
The Union Struggle at Amazon
Labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon explains how the union drive succeeded and what’s next.
Posted inPolitics
The Accidental Revolution
Democrats got one thing right—the American Rescue Plan. It might just realign U.S. politics.
Posted inWorking in America
Lawsuit Alleges Chicken Farmer Misclassification
A class action case charges that chicken farmers are so beholden to middlemen that they are effectively employees of the company.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Life in the Real Economy
Two new studies—one on poverty wages, one on the declining share of revenues going to workers—are at once authoritative and mind-boggling.
Posted inTAP
The Restoration of Workers’ Legal Rights Has Begun
Today on TAP: A case just put before the NLRB asks it to overturn past anti-worker rulings.
Posted inWorking in America
What Amazon and Starbucks Don’t Let Us Know
There are gaping holes in what the law requires employers to reveal about their campaigns to keep their workers from unionizing.
Posted inWorking in America
By Helping Self-Organized Workers, Labor Can Save Itself
Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.
