Portside

At the heart of the Green New Deal is a recognition that shifting to clean energy could leave many behind. That's why the plan protects workers' right to organize, calls for universal health care, retirement security and union jobs at a living wage.

When Stephen Sweeney, Vice-President International Association of Iron Workers, became New Jersey Senate President in 2010, he kept pressing for public employee concessions. What he did to public employees is disgraceful.

A federal board would first have to approve a walkout. The catering workers, some of whom earn as little as $8.46 an hour, are asking for higher wage and less costly health insurance.

Once we start mapping the brutality - always an organizing principle of capitalism - it will be difficult to stop.

A group of 186 distribution center workers at IKEA distribution centers in Joliet and Minooka, Illinois voted June 19 and 20 to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

Under capitalism, “efficiency” most often translates into drudgery, discomfort, and alienation. Thank Frederick Winslow Taylor.

Metro New York Labor Communications Council held its annual convention on May 10 at IBT Local 237. The Communicators of the Year award was presented to the Portside Labor collective. Portside Labor has been a vital resource for the labor community.

Anchored by its two gargantuan wins in South Florida—MDC and Broward boast a total of around 4,500 unionized adjuncts—the SEIU’s higher education campaign has taken on a steamroller quality in Florida.

Expertise in the language of the internet is part of what has made BuzzFeed a digital giant. Now members of the website’s news staff are using their fluency in digital culture to pressure their employer to come to the bargaining table.

It’s a problem that starts with the U.S. Congress: Since 1980, as the workforce has grown by 50 percent, Congress has kept the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission’s funding essentially flat — with budget increases eaten away by inflation.