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Feature

Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again

Hannah Finnie
Chicago Teacher's Union and several thousand supporters rally on 1st April 2016 at Chicago's Daley Center before attempting to shut down Lake Shore Drive, prompting several arrests.
 (Photo by Dakota Sillyman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
First Person

Teacher Strikes Are About More Than Salaries. And They’re Not Over.

Mara Pellittieri
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: Secretary Alexander Acosta, Department of Labor, is photographed before President Donald Trump make remarks on tax reform at the Grand Foyer of the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, in Washington. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Analysis

The Department of Labor Buried Evidence Showing It’s Set to Steal Billions in Workers’ Wages

Rebecca Vallas
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30:  U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Analysis

Trump Has Already Broken All of the Promises He Made to Workers During the State of the Union

Karla Walter & Alex Rowell
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Analysis

No, Forced Labor Is Not Good for Your Health

Shawn Fremstad
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Feature

What Farmworkers Can Teach Hollywood About Ending Sexual Harassment

Greg Kaufmann
AP/Kiichiro Sato
Analysis

It’s Time to Stop Using Inmates for Free Labor

Annie McGrew & Angela Hanks
In this April 27, 2012 photo, workers at Boeing's assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. assemble a 787 jetliner.  (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, file)
Feature

How a Union Vote in Charleston Could Change the Labor Movement in the South

Mike Elk
Attorney General Loretta Lynch takes a tour of a factory during a visit to the Talladega Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., Friday, April 29, 2016, to highlight policies that aim to reduce barriers for formerly incarcerated individuals. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Feature

The Next Step for Organized Labor? People in Prison.

Mike Elk
In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a job seeker fills out an application during a National Career Fairs job fair in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
Analysis

What Happened When North Carolina Cut Unemployment Insurance for Thousands of People

Alexandra Sirota
A man takes a last photo of a jail cell inside the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco.  (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Analysis

How Criminalizing Unemployment Creates Bad Jobs

Noah Zatz
Jocelyn Gill-Campbell, left, originally from Barbados now living in the Brooklyn borough of New York and working as a nanny in Hoboken, N.J., speaks during a Domestic Workers United (DWU) meeting in New York (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Analysis

For Low-Income Women, Equal Pay Day Won’t Come Any Time Soon

Kate Bahn & Juliana Vigorito

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