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From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.

The ILA will not work a container ship without a crew aboard. Already one company developing these automated ships also plans for automated loading and unloading of cargo from these crew-less ships without workers.

These books raise questions and arguments about job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment in pre-pandemic form.

Four-day workweek pilots are emerging across the globe, with some companies now shifting from the pilot phase to implementing the policy permanently. Beyond the U.S., political leaders are voicing support for the concept.

This is the first in a three part series examining the history of the use of paid officers and staff in labor unions. This installment looks at the origins of the practice in the 18th & 19th centuries. Links to parts 2 and 3 at end of article.

Working people can be won to support radical action on climate change — so long as decarbonization is tied to a vision of shared prosperity for all.

In a display of worker militancy not seen in Hollywood for decades, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are about to vote on whether 60,000 of them will go on strike in October.

Faced with fragility and uncertainty, gig workers are connecting across borders to challenge platforms’ power and policies.

Fed up with low wages and injuries, more than 1,000 HelloFresh kitchen factory workers in Colorado and California are unionizing with UNITE HERE.

Working in US public sector feels untenable for many amid lack of benefits, low pay and lack of general investment.