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“There’s a poem in this place--/a poem in America/a poet in every American,” writes Amanda Gorman in a celebration of the varieties of what is an American.

Data is like sunlight on employers’ wider patterns of technology use: without it, workers have little recourse to effectively address workplace concerns or combat violations of labor law.

A new book on the ill-fated German revolution is exhaustive while casting doubt on the possibility of a successful workers’ uprising. The reviewer prefers an out-of-print work that faults the Social Democratic right for saving the extant ruling class

Both at SEIU and the AFL-CIO, President Sweeney felt a particular responsibility to those workers most exploited, most vulnerable, and historically most ignored or worse by organized labor. In my opinion, this was his most important legacy.

This new publication brings the work of this astonishing novelist, a satirist and humorist of biting insight, to new audiences.

How a coalition of the left, the US Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and others organized to make sure Biden took office.

For today’s feminists, labor militants, and socialists, the vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.

The investors calling for Amazon to cease pushing back on the unionization efforts collectively hold more than $20 billion worth of the company's shares.

On Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers will be allowed to eat inside restaurants again. We shouldn’t.

In Alabama, unions gather to support workers seeking union recognition from the Earth’s largest non-union company.