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Capitalism treats blue-collar and white-collar wage earners differently than salary earners. Since the 1980s, anybody who has a non-bullshit job, who is doing actual work, has seen their work downsized, sped up and Taylorized.

I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost. But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff.

We should honor and celebrate the role of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the struggle to advance the cause of worker justice in years past and in our present.

Former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is hoping the recent wave of teacher strikes will help him pass a new law that will protect workers fired for union organizing.

“We have regular emergencies on the buses,” said John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union. “Folks have heart attacks on buses, children get lost on buses. Every aspect of life in America, the bus and subway are microcosms of it. A robot’s not going to help."

Thousands of workers across the University of California system have launched a three-day strike.

AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity

After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

Every day 150 workers die from a workplace fatality or a fatal illness or injury they contracted on the job. If that was a disease or if that was one attack, people would demand action. Instead, it is ignored.

Harvard will collectively bargain with its newly formed graduate student union, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday.