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Worker Rights are Shaping up a Key Issue in 2020. Who Has the Best Ideas?

CEOs are promising to take better care of workers with stronger benefits and higher pay. But as a union leader, I know firsthand that workers can't take these promises for granted.

Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.

The Amazon climate strike took place on Friday in solidarity with the global youth climate strikes.

Trade unions representing hundreds of millions of people around the world have come out in support of what is expected to be the biggest climate mobilization the world has ever seen.

To tackle the problem of wage theft, which almost always places on workers the burden and risk of coming forward to report violations, we have to address the problem of retaliation.

Mayor de Blasio’s announcement of a salary parity agreement was historic in committing the city to equalize starting salaries for certified teachers in community-based early childhood education organizations with their public school counterparts.

The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.

The United Auto Workers said on Sunday that a nationwide strike will begin before midnight. The move comes after the union and General Motors failed to agree on a new contract.