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The city’s 3,000 teachers walked off the job to demand higher pay, smaller classes and more school resources.

"The airline industry is a special case. Airline workers have a lot of leverage because of their role connected with safety," said Lance Compa, a senior lecturer in labor law at Cornell University.

Teacher unions have not often been leaders of broader social justice movements. That’s changing due to a new generation of union activists who see their struggle as part of the struggle for the communities in which they teach.

Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged his support for Pennsylvania workers who started striking Tuesday following the spinoff of a General Electric unit.

When we stereotype or lazily assume low-wage workers to be  “low skill,” it reinforces an often unspoken and pernicious view that they lack intelligence and ambition, maybe even the potential to master “higher-order” skilled work.

A U.S. District judge ruled Thursday that U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta committed a crime in 2007

Defeating Privatization Bill in a Single Day

Nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán is facing an unprecedented revolt in Hungary against a law that will undermine workers’ rights.

Does Amazon’s decision to leave Long Island City for expanded operations in Virginia and Tennessee help Amazon workers seeking to organize? Not one bit. Does it hurt those efforts? Probably.

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