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Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent. Many of the people who actually make the movies and television shows we love so much — whose hard work creates stories, sound stages, spectacular costumes, and so much more — are barely scraping by.

The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.

"It is impossible to fully comprehend the world-changing effects of the UFW movement without considering how the fight for dignified wages and conditions in the fields punctured the political economy where the rancher was king."

Organized labor was the “backbone” of the opposition to the Republican attempt to throttle voters’ agency to amend the Ohio state constitution and maybe a harbinger of a major realignment in America’s rustbelt.

Pending cases could boost the potency of worker strikes, expand the scope of labor law protections, and make other changes that bolster worker and union power.

One of the biggest changes in state politics in years, explained.

UAW president Shawn Fain has called for a 32-hour workweek. It’s the revival of an old vision in the US labor movement — and the sort of ambition overworked and underpaid employees need.

UAW Ramps Up Pressure on Biden

These two unions are taking the threats of AI seriously — and the rest of us should, too. Now’s the time to form a union with your coworkers, and discuss what protections you’ll need to face this moment.

Indigenous peoples are often among the workers most discriminated against and in the most precarious jobs, but they have an ally in the trade union world to help defend their rights and improve their social and working conditions.