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Dollar General is one of the lowest-paying major retail chains, with average wages barely above the $7.25 federal minimum. Low pay is made worse by the lack of hours allotted to workers. In response workers are starting to organize.

In April, 8.3% of disabled Americans were unemployed, compared with 3.1% of those without a disability.

Teachers have underwritten the underfunded public school system with their pocketbooks and after-school hours, stealing both time and money from their families to provide for their students. Normal was awful. It is time to be bold.

Private equity firms have conspired to flood the emergency health care market with ER doctors in an effort to cut labor costs — in the midst of what patients will still experience as an acute physician shortage with declining standards of care.

No more arguing over territory or industries—we need multi-union coalitions capable of organizing on a national scale.

The degrowth movement implores us to remain unsatisfied by anything short of a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work.

Strikes, once common, are rare today. We asked readers to share their strike stories.

Labor must clearly tap into this well of anger and outrage over a decision that dates back to the 17th century. Labor needs to defend the rights of women.

Workers who bore the brunt of the Covid pandemic at billion-dollar companies such as Dollar General, McDonald’s and Wendy’s are leading a surge in action.

From student debt strikes to withholding rent, working people have a number of ways to fight the oligarchy.