Portside

A regular series in which people lay out what it’s actually like to work at some of the country’s most powerful companies.

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We need to show working people that it is possible to undertake major industry reform that puts workers and their communities at its heart by ensuring future low emissions jobs are good union jobs.

Harvard’s graduate student union began its strike Tuesday at midnight after more than a year of contract negotiations with the University.

Even though the economy is adding more jobs, there's increasing evidence that many of those new positions don't offer the kind of wages and benefits required to get ahead. Americans are working but aren't earning enough to gain economic stability.

Public sector worker in Argentina fight for better conditions.

A sexual harassment scandal at AFGE headquarters is making the union’s resistance to Trump more difficult.

The times are testing whether democracy and the rule of law, which are under the most ferocious, and sustained assault, will survive. We ask readers for their support once a year. If you like what we do, this is the time to support Portside.

“We’re in a different world today, where management is all about the money and the company’s bottom line, but where’s the dignity of a person?”

The protest was one of 16 at major national airports on behalf of 20,000 airline-catering workers.