Workers Rights

We're highlighting stories from our archives on the effectiveness, implications, and origins of corporate boycotts and strikes.

For many of the state's grocery workers, wages declined as non-unionized companies like Walmart claimed a bigger portion of the market.

People gather to ask the McDonald’s corporation to raise workers' wages to a $15 minimum wage as well as demand the right to a union on May 23rd, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Drivers take part in a rally demanding more job security and livable incomes, at Uber and Lyft's New York City headquarters on May 8th, 2019.

Amid hazardous air conditions in California, farm management is turning away volunteers attempting to hand out masks to farmworkers.

As fires clogged the air in Southern California, farmworkers continued to work, even as public-school students and others were told to stay home and indoors.

In their book, Juno Mac and Molly Smith examine sex workers' struggles in the modern world.

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

A Supreme Court ruling, Elon Musk's union drama, and more.

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

Twelve photos that show the evolution of the U.S. labor movement from the early 1900s to today.

An expert gives us an overview of the movement sweeping labor reform.

As long as national borders are strictly enforced, workers at the bottom of the labor ladder will be pitted against one another.

Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court and various businesses have begun rolling back the rights of older workers in the U.S.

Today's decision puts the pop star in a difficult spot.

Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers.

Time off for being young? For working swing shift? With extra pay? Not only were U.S. vacation policies drafted by Ebenezer Scrooge before (a working-day) Christmas, but there are lots of time-off practices the Land of the Free missed entirely.

Researchers say the decline of union rights in the U.S. contributes to the growing wage gap for all private sector workers, including nonunion members.