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Artificial Intelligence: Principles To Protect Workers

AFL-CIO AFL-CIO
AI shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of the past, where periods of globalization, such as NAFTA and automation prioritized short-term gains for companies and investors, and left working families and their communities to bear the cost.

Weathering Backlash With Care Infrastructure

Briana M. Bivens In These Times
Photo of four children on top of a bed looking at the camera.
The Highlander Nursery School’s free socialist early childhood education helped sustain the Southern labor movement. Here’s what we can learn.

New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind

Paul Prescod Jacobin
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement

Jenny Brown Jacobin
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

Unleashing Retirement Scammers

Bryce Covert In These Times
The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients’ expense.

Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

Amy L. Eisenstein On Labor
If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.