Portside

The PayUp campaign has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies owed to factories and workers, and they’re just getting started.

In the 1920s and ’30s, a summer school for industrial working women built an economics curriculum around the perspective of labor rather than capital. It offers a visionary example of worker ed that emphasizes class struggle and worker empowerment.

Generations of steel and chemical manufacturing in the region have contaminated vacant industrial land that has sat dormant since the businesses shuttered. Residents are tired of being the city’s dumping ground, so they are fighting back.

Growing evidence suggests that people with cancer and other conditions that challenge their immune systems may be incubators of mutant viruses.

A new BJS report shows that U.S. jails reduced their populations by 25% in the first few months of the pandemic. But even then, the U.S. was still putting more people in local jails than most countries incarcerate in total.

A new series focusing on the great artist’s relationship with ‘muse’ Caterina da Cremona rests on virtually no historical evidence

Virginia counties and municipalities can now pass local ordinances to establish collective bargaining rights—if they choose.

"We will not allow Trump's handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to slow down mail delivery, cut hours at post offices, and sabotage the Postal Service," said Bernie Sanders.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a sweeping ruling that broadened the discretion of management to discipline or dismiss workers for offensive workplace conduct that arose in the context of union-related activity.

Oil companies knew 50 years ago the huge damage they were doing. Their motive to ignore it is the same now as it was then.