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EPI researchers reflect on the state of labor in the United States.

At its core, a fighting labor movement must take on the boss directly, winning fights both big and small that transform life for workers. This should not be in dispute, and it is why socialists have traditionally salted union and non-union shops.

To a steady beat of whistles, car horns and “AB5 and a union!” hundreds of rideshare drivers amassed outside Uber’s corporate headquarters in San Fransisco on Wednesday.

Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they’ll be in even bigger trouble.

The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union is one year old. A member-organizer describes the campaign.

The group argues some unions have become too disengaged, too timid and lack the organizing power they once wielded on behalf of workers.

Joe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.

Our world order, globalized from above, cries out for a globalized response from below, a new international fit for the purpose of system transformation in the twenty-first century

Since UNITE HERE began union-organizing drives at Station Casinos in 2011, workers have successfully voted to form a union at six of the company’s properties in Nevada. But management is challenging them in court.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers scores significant, preliminary win against Boeing on alleged retaliatory firings. Boeing is expected to appeal.