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At a time when the truth is a precious common good, RFK Junior has been spreading dangerous lies

America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

Where employees are a corporation’s key assets, workers’ greater power comes in threatening to walk out the door

Spread the word, because the midterms elections have become even more crucial

The picture that emerged from yesterday's hearing is not dramatically different from what we've learned before — an unhinged man willing to do anything to maintain power, even at the cost of lives, law, and our democracy.

A post-Covid jobs recovery has strengthened workers’ hand – companies posting record profits don’t need government to slow the economy

I used to believe several things about the twenty-first century that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 have shown me are false. 

Starbucks, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Amazon – all protect profits by making customers pay more. We need the political courage to say they can and should cover rising costs themselves

American workers are now flexing their muscles for the first time in decades. You might say workers have declared a national general strike until they get better pay and improved working conditions.