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Health Care Worker Unions Are on the Side of Patients

LUKE MESSAC MAX JORDAN NGUEMENI Jacobin
Hospitals portray unions as opposed to the interests of patients. The opposite is true: health care unions have been the strongest advocates for safer conditions and patients who can’t pay debts.

New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages

Marcus Baram, Documented, with data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Lam Thuy Vo, special to ProPublica ProPublica
CARTOON - END WAGE THEFT NOW
The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.

Shawn Fain Is Right: The Workweek Should Be Shorter

Alex N. Press Jacobin
UAW president Shawn Fain has called for a 32-hour workweek. It’s the revival of an old vision in the US labor movement — and the sort of ambition overworked and underpaid employees need.