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Even as public employee unions fight the Trump administration’s personnel cuts, a pair of GOP senators want to ban federal employees from belonging to unions.

Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME: "I think it’s up to AFSCME and the labor movement and our allies and friends to continue to talk about what this administration is trying to do to hurt working people."

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.

Created by Abdullah Saeed, Deli Boys also centers South Asians in a genre that they’re rarely featured in

The largest NLRB union election win in February was at the primary care group Optum Care, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare. The vertical integration of health care has brought frustrating consequences for health workers, who are now organizing

What we need to think about are things like maybe a national strike across this country.

UAW called for unions to synchronize contract expirations on May 1, 2028. How can we harness this compression point to coordinate our movements?

Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind.

Blue Bottle Coffee workers in Massachusetts scored a major victory when they unionized the Nestle-owned coffee chain in 2024. Now they’re fighting for their first contract, and building international solidarity with unions along the supply chain.

In this book, writes reviewer Christiaens, author Bruno Leipold expertly surveys the writings of Karl Marx and tracks his intellectual journey which vacillated between and combined republicanism and socialism.