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Unions are filing more petitions to hold elections with the NLRB and winning them at higher rates, under a Biden NLRB committed to enforcing labor law. However, recent Supreme Court decisions will hurt worker organizing, as would a Trump NLRB.

Historian William H. McNeill contends that the potato fundamentally changed world history. European armies marched on what they foraged locally even if it meant peasants starved to death as a result.

 “[The show] is, at its core, a love letter to working-class people,” he says. “I wanted people to fall in love with the town of Wrexham. But most importantly, I wanted them to see themselves in the town of Wrexham.”

Teamster president Sean O’Brien’s speech at the Republican National Convention may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?

We get why union leaders want “access”; they’ve been shut out of real influence for so long. But it’s delusional to think that Trump might swap out his anti-worker—really, anti-humanity—policies; they are at the core of his being

The poets says doomsday: climate heat is serious business, coming sooner than you think.

A new Bill makes it easier for businesses to endanger and exploit their workforces in the name of speed and profits.

Michigan poet Ryan McCarty witnesses the shock of pepper spray from an unfeeling cop doing his job.

Radioactive Radicals is a vivid, galvanizing portrait of two young radicals thrust into the whirlwind of revolutionary working-class politics from the 1960s to the present. Here is a whopper of a novel by any estimation.

The population of job-seekers is greater than the BLS’s unemployed population. It is closer to National Jobs for All Network’s (NJFAN) Full Count, which adds part-timers who want full-time work and people who want jobs but have not searched recently.