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The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?

Too many unions have responded to Donald Trump’s historic attacks on federal workers with little more than words. To beat back his anti-union assault, organized labor needs to break with decades of timidity.

The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South

Can worker-to-worker organizing allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline?

Workers deserve the right to collectively bargain, full stop.

In an unprecedented anti-union action last Thursday, the president moved to end collective bargaining for a million federal employees and scrap union contracts nearly that number.

The American Federation of Government Employees has strongly opposed the bills.

Rank-and-file members of the NALC pushed their national leadership to call a national day of action to fight privatization and defend postal jobs against DOGE attacks.

For the 12 million workers in U.S. manufacturing, the question is whether it is possible, under this administration and in this moment of twenty-first-century capitalism, to create a pro-worker, pro-union trade policy.

The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse lines, explained in one chart.