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George W. Crockett was a pioneering labor lawyer, defender of Communists and other left wingers, a progressive judge, and a member of Congress from Detroit. Reviewer Gespass reviews a new biography of this towering figure.

Major League Baseball has paid $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers.

Documentary filmmakers sensitive to the unions aren’t quite sure how to navigate the delicate subject of continuing to work without dissing the unions in the process. “There’s no clear message for how the nonfiction space can be supportive."

The settlement comes years after the American Federation of Government Employees filed a grievance against the Dept. of Veteran Affairs for carrying out mass firings in violation of the union's collective bargaining agreement.

Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.

ILO Voices offers first-person perspectives on the world of work. In this article, Cristina Carro speaks about the impact of the transition from coal mining to a new job.

Dark Winds retools and modernizes Hillerman's conception. Set amidst the fiercely beautiful New Mexico landscape of the early 1970s, this entertaining series stars, is written by, and is largely directed by Native Americans.

Workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, have announced supermajority support for forming a union. Jacobin talked to two Grindr workers about their demands.

Hurried Line Speeds and Horrible Hours

There’s more than a little irony in Peter Carroll’s poem about a woman who has been imprisoned for over 20 years being “free to start over.”