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It is time to make good on promises made in the ILO Declaration of Philadelphia, 80 years since its publication. By harnessing the trade union movement's collective power we can ensure that progress envisaged under the Declaration becomes a reality.

Last year, long before his name was on anyone’s lips as a possible vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz received huge praise from labor groups for signing what was considered the most pro-worker, pro-family package of legislation enacted.

A journalist travels across the US to unravel the secrets surrounding the life and death of his Ethiopian immigrant father.

"We’re asking and fighting for what we deserve," a worker says before strike votes this week from Boston to Honolulu.

Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.

Many farmers are offering alternate direct-to-consumer models for purchasing their produce, adjacent to a CSA but with more flexibility.

A century ago, labor colleges transformed American unions. It's time to bring them back.

Conservatives are capitalizing on the abandoned Khelif-Carini fight to levy anti-trans attacks.

Thanks in part to investments from the Inflation Reduction Act and tariffs on China, the US South is seeing a boom in electric-vehicle manufacturing. The industry’s expansion in the mostly nonunion region presents an urgent organizing challenge

Major unions should follow the lead of the UAW and invest serious resources to organize in EV and other growing sectors across the South.