Unions Archives

Economics

The Future of Work: Organize the Immigrant Workers

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Kent Wong

Economics

College Athletes’ Labor Struggle Isn’t as Dead as It Seems

The NLRB punts on whether student athletes are employees—but not for the reason you may think.

Jared Keller

Economics

The Future of Work: Labor Law Must Catch Up

Richard L. Trumka & Craig Becker

Economics

The Future of Work: Making Service Work Pay

Lydia DePillis

Economics

The Future of Work: Three Ways to Protect the Middle Class

Maria Echaveste

Economics

The Future of Work: A Future Like the Past

Margaret Levi

Economics

‘A Company That, Literally, Has Blood on Its Hands’

During a bitter strike in the 1990s, the United Steelworkers of America found Firestone supported warlord Charles Taylor, but never released its findings.

T. Christian Miller & Jonathan Jones

Education

Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?

For many universities and colleges, both public and private, it’s their most embarrassing secret—paying educated professionals minimum wage salaries with no benefits.

Ana Beatriz Cholo

Economics

The New Heartland: ‘We’re Like the India of the United States’

A young progressive and activist reflects on life in Bakersfield, California.

Maria Bustillos

Economics

A Way for Feminism to Overcome Its ‘Class Problem’

A growing body of research indicates that there are few other interventions that improve the economic prospects and work-life balance of women workers as much as unions do.

Nicole Woo