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A close look at data suggests unions could be doing a lot more to organize and build the labor movement in this moment.

Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.

Open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component parties.

Even if the movement isn’t rebounding quite yet, green shoots are abounding—and presidential candidates ignore it at their peril.

Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, striking to gain recognition for their union.

UTLA’s transformation story surfaces critical lessons that respond to the most important question facing the labor movement today: How do we ensure that the recent years of labor upsurge across economic sectors becomes durable, transformative power?

Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

In the United States and Canada, we’ve seen an increase in labor militancy. This upsurge is a chance to inject working-class politics into the political arena, which has so far been mostly unresponsive to workers’ demands.

YouTube shows didn't get any Emmy nominations this year, but the platform is plotting how to help creators get mainstream recognition

New Orleans-based artist Jean-Marcel St. Jacques drew on centuries of Black spiritual and sustainable practices to create the artwork, which will be displayed at a Woodlawn museum honoring the teen and his mother.