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ILO Voices offers first-person perspectives on the world of work. In this article, Cristina Carro speaks about the impact of the transition from coal mining to a new job.

Workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, have announced supermajority support for forming a union. Jacobin talked to two Grindr workers about their demands.

Hurried Line Speeds and Horrible Hours

SAG-AFTRA and WGA are joining forces with hotel workers, UPS drivers, teachers and others for solidarity marches

It is necessary to the success of working people to develop a consciousness of class solidarity among workers and the realization that their plight is the result of predatory capitalism in which the welfare of human beings matters little.

Texas is "an unsafe state [for workers] because enforcement has been dialed back, regulations have been dialed back," Puente said. "And when you're trying to encourage businesses to come to your state, this is not a good look."

The Starbucks case demonstrates that a large corporation can effectively bust a union with time, by dithering over details and exhausting legal appeals.

Officers—recently elected on promises of greater transparency and militancy, in the union’s first-ever direct election for top posts—established what could become a new tradition.

L.A. was the city where the ethnicity and ideology of union leadership came to reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Federation of Labor.

Duvan Perez, 16, dies at Mar-Jac factory in Hattiesburg, Mississippi amid rollback of child labor laws across several US states