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The biggest news about labor, jobs, unemployment, and how America works.

A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide

By Whizy Kim

Want a 32-hour workweek? Give workers more power.

By Oshan Jarow

Why Lyft and Uber drivers did their largest strike ever

By Li Zhou

How Boeing put profits over planes

By Whizy Kim

We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

By Whizy Kim

It’s just a tip

By Emily Stewart

The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why stop at the four-day workweek?

By Oshan Jarow

One down, two to go: Autoworkers get a tentative deal with Ford

By Emily Stewart

Going on strike is a risk

By Emily Stewart

The actors strike negotiations have broken down

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

By Alissa Wilkinson and Emily Stewart

Everything you need to know to feel smart about the UAW strike

By Emily Stewart and Ellen Ioanes

What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

By Alissa Wilkinson

The myths we tell ourselves about American farming

By Kenny Torrella

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This summer is giving us a glimpse at the dangerous future of work

By Whizy Kim and Kenny Torrella

Nobody wins in the Hollywood strikes, including billion-dollar studios

By Emily Stewart

“Going shopping” is dead

By Whizy Kim

It’s not just famous actors and big-name writers the Hollywood strikes are hurting

By Emily Stewart

Why thousands of LA service workers are on strike

By Li Zhou

Workers are mad as hell this summer

By Rani Molla

Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated.

By Dylan Matthews

Teachers are striking for more than just pay raises

By Courtney E. Martin

Hollywood’s historic double strike, explained

By Alissa Wilkinson

Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a double strike

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why strikes might disrupt your summer Eurotrip

By Jen Kirby

The Republican push to weaken child labor laws, explained

By Rachel M. Cohen

The massive Los Angeles public school worker strike, explained

By Nicole Narea

Stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need them

By Rachel M. Cohen

Child labor protections are the latest Republican target

By Ellen Ioanes

The five-day workweek is dead

By Anna North

What Michigan Democrats will do now that they control a key swing state

By Nicole Narea

What banning noncompetes could mean for the US workforce

By Sara Morrison and Rani Molla

America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Labor exploitation, explained by Minions

By Rebecca Jennings

The case against SCOTUS

By Ian Millhiser

It’s harder than ever to get fired or laid off

By Rani Molla

A new era for the American worker

By Rani Molla

What the first Starbucks union means for workers everywhere

By Rani Molla

Hating work is having a moment

By Rani Molla

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