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![Jane McAlevey speaks into a microphone](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0708-jane-mcalevey-400x300.jpg)
Labor Movement Commemorates the Life of Union Organizer Jane McAlevey
McAlevey, who passed away on Sunday, continued to organize, teach and write nearly to the end.
![FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in Rayburn Building on May 15, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0704-lina-khan-ftc-400x300.jpg)
FTC Ban on Anti-Worker Noncompete Clauses Stalled by Trump Judge
The judge signaled she would likely block the rule in its entirety with her final decision in the case on August 30.
![agricultural workers tend to crops while wearing clothing to protect them from the sun](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0703-climate-workers-heat-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s Proposal Would Protect 36 Million Workers Facing Extreme Heat on the Job
Labor advocates applauded the plan but warned that federal labor standards for extreme heat are long overdue.
![Congo Still Fights to Control Its Own Resources 64 Years After Its Independence](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SEG3-Lumumba-400x300.jpg)
Congo Still Fights to Control Its Own Resources 64 Years After Its Independence
Author and analyst Vijay Prashad discusses how poverty and resource exploitation still ravage the country to this day.
![A man in a ppe mask cuts romaine lettuce in a field alongside many other workers, separated from eachother by plastic dividers](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0701-agricultural-workers-400x300.jpg)
New Labor Department Protections Empower H-2A Agricultural Workers to Organize
The work of groups like Migrant Justice and Centro de los Derechos del Migrante helped lay the groundwork for the rule.
![Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0701-kyriakos-mitsotakis-400x300.jpg)
Greece Just Became the First European Country to Impose a 6-Day Workweek
Years of brutal neoliberal capitalism combined with the left’s betrayal have led to widespread political demoralization.
![Marta Gaspar, a farm worker, covers guava fruits from pests with plastic bags at a farm on November 2, 2023, in Homestead, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1766414354-400x300.jpg)
Florida Ban on Protections for Outdoor Workers Goes Into Effect Amid Record Heat
The same interests lobbying against heat protection for workers also pushed to roll back child labor protections.
![President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0627-biden-400x300.jpg)
Ahead of the Debates, What Are the Myths and Realities of Biden’s Economy?
Progressive economist Robert Pollin weighs in on “Bidenomics” and the economic policies of Trump’s administration.
![Amazon warehouse workers and members of Teamsters Union protest Amazons unfair labor practices and shameful response to workers demands for better, safer jobs with fair wages and an end to retaliation at Amazon Air Hub on October 14, 2022, in San Bernardino, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1244001557-400x300.jpg)
This Summer, US Workers Are Organizing to Beat the Heat
Workers — both union and non-union — are winning AC, safety breaks and, in one groundbreaking case, heat pay.
![A United HomeCare Services home health aide, Wendy Cerrato, helps Olga Socarras get dressed during a visit on January 6, 2010, in Miami, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0620-home-health-care-aide-400x300.jpg)
The Most Common Essential Jobs in the US Don’t Pay a Living Wage
The economy is improving, but inequality is tearing the US apart. Democrats ignore working-class pain at their peril.