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Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s ...

Labor unions are in the news a lot these days, with high-visibility organizing drives at some of America’s biggest companies: Starbucks, Amazon, major fast-food chains, tech and gaming firms, ...

From graduate student workers to research associates and postdoctoral scholars, 2025 marked an unprecedented surge in labor organizing at Penn. The past 12 months saw the formation of a new union on ...

For the third year in a row, UC Santa Barbara students participated in “Labor Summer,” a program that gives a group of students on-the-ground experience in labor organizing, planning rallies, and ...

A journalist reflected on his experience as a labor activist and stressed the importance of unionization at a Georgetown University Law Center event Oct. 27. A labor journalist and author argued that ...

When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights.

The United States is home to seventeen million military veterans. About 1.3 million of them currently work in union jobs, ...

On September 3, 2025, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law New Jersey Assembly Bill 4429 which expands on prior statutory prohibitions on employers’ requiring employees “to attend or listen to ...

This article is part of the In These Times Labor Organizer of the Year series. The award honors emerging leaders building worker power across the country. If democracy in the United States is to be ...

The Director-General of the Arab Labor Organization, Fayez al-Mutairi, confirmed that Syria’s return to the organization after a ...