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How to Avoid Amazon This Holiday Season
When we have a choice, let's give our money to places that uplift workers, artists, creators and communities.
Nail Salon Workers Face Respiratory Illness and Cancer Risks, Study Shows
Nail salon workers face health risks similar to those who work in garages or oil refineries.
Appalachia Has a Rich History of Women-Led Social Movements
Historian Jessie Wilkerson is changing perceptions of Appalachia with stories of its women-led movements.
Harvard Grad Workers Are Striking Over Medical Debt and Sexual Harassment
Harvard is the world’s wealthiest university, but grad student workers are struggling.
How Supporters of the Green New Deal Are Showing Up for Workers
Calls for a just transition have become central to a robust and revitalized environmental movement in the U.S.
Pelosi Stalls Pro-Labor Bill While Pushing Trump’s Trade Deal
It's not the first time Pelosi has led a Democratic-controlled House to shelve labor-friendly legislation.
Wages Have Risen Due to Minimum Wage Increases and the Fed’s Obama-Era Policies
Low rates of unemployment give workers the bargaining power necessary to secure real wage gains.
Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor
The right-wing members of the National Labor Relations Board want to make it legal for corporations to spy on workers.
Striking Workers Sound the Alarm on Privatizing D.C. Public Transit
Workers at Cinder Bed Road garage are demanding equal pay for equal work.
A New Generation Is Rising Up to Resist Neoliberalism Across the Globe
In Chile, Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Iraq and beyond, international working-class solidarity is growing.