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Studies have reported a link between staffing shortages and higher rates of hospital-acquired infections.

A task force is exploring how to boost union organizing and clout. Talks have included leveraging federal purchasing to steer agency contracts to companies with unionized labor or that otherwise promote workers’ rights.

The ongoing climate crisis is not going to spare Siberia. Temperatures topped 118 degrees 118 degrees Fahrenheit, last week in one area.

At UAW Local 2110, Maida Rosenstein has quietly organized the most prestigious group of cultural institutions on the East Coast.

Tennessee, Montana and Oklahoma are the latest states to pass anti-protest laws. Other bills in Iowa, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have progressed in the last two months.

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

“Even when the events depicted are far away, journalists and forensic analysts, deeply immersed in a flood of explicit, violent, and disturbing photos and video, may feel that it is seeping into their own personal headspace...”

Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.

The ongoing struggle of farmers in India is the most significant mass mobilization in decades and represents the biggest challenge to the government of Narendra Modi since it first came to power in 2014.

What started as a Colombian protest against a regressive tax bill has become a national strike against police brutality and poverty.