Features

Please Note: You may have disabled JavaScript and/or CSS. Although this news content will be accessible, certain functionality is unavailable.

Skip to News

img

more
  • Who Pays to Save Social Security? Us or Them?
    Jane Slaughter
    August 25

    Social Security is quite healthy now—but it will need more cash eventually. Who should pony up? The vast majority of working Americans, suddenly forced to work through what they’d been promised would be their golden years? Or the biggest earners, the top 6 percent?

  • Taxi Driver Groups Taking Multiple Routes to Organize
    Tiffany Ten Eyck
    August 24

    Robert De Niro burned the image of the unstable taxi driver into American consciousness in the 1974 film “Taxi Driver,” but real-life drivers across the U.S. have long faced their own forms of enforced workplace instability.

  • Workers of the World Awaken / There's Power in a Union
    Len Wallace
    September 1
    Song of the Month

    "I consider this to be Joe Hill's greatest song. It's a call for the One Big Union and workers standing together to build a better world. His vision is needed now more that ever. The opening words are from another of his songs noted in artist Carlos Cortez's famous print of Joe Hill."

  • Guestworker Group Exposes Forced Labor in Tennessee
    Jacob Horwitz
    August 20

    Hilario Jimenez, a landscaper on a visa, escaped a pistol-packing employer who kept workers under constant surveillance. He and a guestworkers group are confronting the company's involuntary servitude and human trafficking.

  • Hotel Workers Wildcat in Southern California
    Andrew Cohen and Joseph Murphy
    August 19
    The Workplace

    Hotel workers in Irvine, California, did something August 9 almost unheard of recently—they struck a non-union shop. A daylong picket demanded bosses stop denying breaks and pay for years of missed breaktime.

  • Make Technology Work For—Not Against—Us
    Charley Richardson
    August 13
    Stewards Corner

    New technologies can affect the number of jobs, the skills needed, training issues, monitoring, pace of work, intensity of work, control over the work process, and even the ability to do our work well. What should we do about technology? What do we need to know? We do have rights, but we need to take the initiative.