Labor

Organizers say the L.A. movement to better fund public education will inspire solidarity movements nationwide.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The most important reads from our coverage of unions, driverless tech, urban gentrification, and more.

• By Max Ufberg

A new report argues that the biggest driver of wage stagnation is a decline in workers' power.

• By Dwyer Gunn

The human cost of job loss can be enormous, leading to depression, failing marriages or health, and even suicide.

• By Steven High

An organizer with a couriers union discusses the ongoing campaign to improve the gig economy.

• By Arvind Dilawar

The economy added 134,000 jobs in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Grassroots Campaigns canvasses for such non-profits as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. But former employees say the organization has taken a hardline—and repressive—view of labor reform within its own ranks.

• By Arvind Dilawar

Pacific Standard spoke with Amazonian activists, grandmothers, and small children at Saturday's march in San Francisco.

• By Ted Scheinman

The White House is countering a government agency's findings that Americans' wages haven't grown as quickly as cost of living over the past year.

• By Francie Diep

For Labor Day, a selection of some of our favorite stories on the American worker in 2018.

• By Emily Moon

Identifying union fees as a matter of free speech works both ways.

• By Francie Diep

Pacific Standard spoke with a labor researcher about the likely effects of the landmark Supreme Court decision passed on Wednesday.

• By Francie Diep

Union advocates argue that the loss of agency fees will financially decimate public-sector unions.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Thousands of public-sector employees march during a strike called by labor unions to protest against austerity measures in San José, Costa Rica, on June 25th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

In this historically anti-union state, organizing even a small number of workers is a big deal.

• By Francie Diep

Solidarity creates a formidable challenge for the New York City university's administration.

• By Arvind Dilawar

The Supreme Court just ruled that employers can require employees to agree to arbitration and waive their rights to file class-action lawsuits.

• By Dwyer Gunn

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Francie Diep
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Organizers inside and outside of the penitentiary walls are teaming up—and getting creative—to fight for reform.

• By Arvind Dilawar

The May Day "King" and "Queen" lead the Greenmen of Glastonbury carrying this year's Maypole through the center of Glastonbury, to a ceremony at Bushy Combe below Glastonbury Tor as part of the town's Beltane May Day celebrations on May 1st, 2018, in Somerset, England.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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People around the world are taking to the streets today to fight for workers' rights.

• By Ashley Hackett

An Indian laborer works in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 30th, 2018, ahead of International Labor Day.

• By Pacific Standard Staff