Walter Reuther was president of the United Auto Workers from 1946 until he died in a plane crash in 1970. For him, the UAW ...

Nursing in the US is highly unionized, well-paid, and increasingly central to the economy. Rank-and-file nurses are well-positioned to fight for common good demands and for a broader revival of the ...

What can a steelworkers strike from 1892 tell us about today's economy? NPR's Don Gonyea visits Homestead, Pennsylvania where one of America's most important labor fights unfolded.

Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the global problem of war. On June 9, 2026, for ...

How are these digital movements influencing traditional labor organizing? What social media allows is for labor activists and individual workers to spread their message of employer abuse and worker ...

Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance ...

They might not get as much praise and recognition, but Black women have served as the driving force and the foundation of many of the most transformative and important movements. It’s a cycle that ...

Reports that Cesar Chavez sexually abused girls and women while building the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) into one of the most celebrated and beloved institutions in U.S. labor history are ...

Donald Trump wore cufflinks and a tie—but no hairnet, or company visor, or rubber-soled shoes—while scooping fries into red cardboard containers last week, at a McDonald’s outside Philadelphia. He was ...

From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist ...

Authoritarian socialists, communists, and even some anarchists believe that the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement are the same and share identical goals. In this article, I want to ...