I became NPR’s labor and workplace correspondent in the spring of 2021, shortly after labor organizers lost their bid to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. The tally was not even close.

The resurgence of the American labor movement is being led in no small part by a cohort of young, diverse, fired-up workers around the country. Union density remains embarrassingly low overall, but ...

In California and elsewhere, public officials aim to honor the farmworkers movement rather than the man on March 31. In a historic win for U.S. labor, all major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now ...

It’s clear that Trump and his allies are intent on reversing hard-fought worker protections. It’s equally clear that we need a robust labor movement ready to not just defend against the attacks of ...

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 ...

ROANOKE. Va. – The labor movement looks a lot different now than it did decades ago. In the first eight months of 2023, over 323,000 workers walked off the job for better benefits, pay, and working ...

This post was updated Dec. 3 at 10:24 p.m. The labor studies department launched a new residency program for labor movement leaders this fall. The Labor Movement Fellows Program brings leaders and ...

The Republican National Convention opened last night with an unlikely prime time speaker: Sean O'Brien, president of the Teamsters union. His appearance has the labor movement riled up. An unlikely ...

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Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace ...

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 ...