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The strike exemplified a problem in hospitals across the nation, where cost-cutting had resulted in staffs stretched well beyond recommended safe staffing ratios even before emergency conditions began.

Union interest is growing in the gaming industry

Dave Kellaway reviews Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Demon Copperhead and reflects on her contribution to literary fiction. She is one of the best living writers of the socially engaged novel.

On the heels of an unprecedented 24-day labor strike late last year, around 20 journalists at the 117-year-old Fort Worth Star-Telegram have ratified the only union contract at a Texas newspaper.

This book of critical essays aims to introduce the radical legacy of science fiction writing to new audiences.

Death, supermarkets, and an airborne toxic event.

Ninety-one percent of the graduate and professional student workers who participated in Monday's election voted to form a union.

Restaurant critics don’t talk about gentrification--a process whereby longtime residents of underserved neighborhoods are displaced in favor of more affluent ones, new businesses and amenities-but this critic discusses their possible role in it.

Profound legal and political changes enacted in 2019 have undermined the monopoly of corrupt protection unions and opened the way for a transformation of Mexico’s labor relations regime.

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the American working class faced a paradox: workers were told they were “essential” and touted as “heroes,” yet they were often treated as sacrificial lambs.