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![United Airlines pilots hold signs in front of the United Airlines terminal at San Francisco International Airport on May 12, 2023 in San Francisco, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1489508040-400x300.jpg)
United Pilots Picket for New Contract as Strikes Loom at Southwest and American
United pilots protested at airports across the U.S. on the heels of strike-authorization votes at two other airlines.
![A man looks at computer screens inside of the New York Stock Exchange](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0509-new-york-stock-exchange-400x300.jpg)
Labor Organizers Launch a New Model for the Fight Against Private Equity
Workers are fighting back against private equity -- the ruthless industry that strips and flips companies for profit.
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Iowa Republicans Pass Bill to Allow 14-Year-Olds to Work in Meat Coolers
“This session will go down in history as one of the most divisive and cruel ever seen in Iowa.”
![Khalid Payenda looks at his Uber app after leaving his family home in Woodbridge, Virginia, on February 25, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1240947521-400x300.jpg)
There Is a Safety Crisis in App-Based Work, and Workers Know How to Fix It
As industry-leader Uber celebrates record revenue, app workers are demanding their just due.
![Mizzy Pareidolia (left) and Alex Boyd (center) hold strike signs outside Starbucks on North Charles Street in Mount Vernon, Baltimore.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1251929046-400x300.jpg)
Amid Rampant Union Busting, Workers Tell Starbucks It’s Time to Negotiate
On May Day, Starbucks workers confronted managers at the corporation’s regional headquarters in Manhattan.
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McDonald’s in Kentucky Employed 10-Year-Olds Without Pay, Labor Officials Find
One of the children was found to have been working the deep fryer, which is illegal under federal law.
![Employees of McDonald's protest outside a branch calling for a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 19, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1232990803-400x300.jpg)
New Research Upends the Notion That Significant Wage Hikes Are Job Killers
A working paper shows that large minimum wage increases can have positive effects on both earnings and employment.
![Rutgers students and faculty participate in a strike at the university's main campus on April 10, 2023 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1481223072-400x300.jpg)
Rutgers Academic Workers Are Striking for the Future of Public Education
Donna Murch outlines the historic and ongoing labor struggle at Rutgers University.
![A group of active duty American soldiers out of uniform from the group 'GIs for Peace' carry a large banner and march amid others during a protest against the war in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1971.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-98483070-400x300.jpg)
Undercover Salting Isn’t Just a Labor Strategy. It Has an Antiwar History Too.
Leftist organizers entered the war machine to turn troop discontent into organized resistance to the Vietnam War.
![National Health Service (NHS) junior doctors take part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, on the final day of the British Medical Association's 96-hour walkout in a dispute over pay, on April 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1251810776-400x300.jpg)
NHS Workers to Resume Strike, Rejecting Tory Government Pay Offer as Inadequate
Rishi Sunak, the wealthiest PM in UK history, has repeatedly supported proposals to crack down on the strike.