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As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.

Strike threat looms.

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.

Carter's work post-presidency brokering peace and monitoring overseas elections for fairness earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. But when he occupied the White House, Carter was a disappointment to American working people and their labor movement.

Georgia AG wants Trump Administration to restrain farm workers wages.

A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.

Judge says coffee giant has no standing in appeal of NLRB finding that it fired two workers for trying to unionize

Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

Striking Amazon and Starbucks workers in California and elsewhere have long pushed for union contracts. The Trump administration is unlikely to be on their side.