The Deepening Unemployment Crisis
Current unemployment numbers now rival the peak during the Great Depression.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Stories: Union Busting in a Disaster
Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.
Belabored Stories: Farmworkers Need Field Hospitals
Workers in the fields in Immokalee, Florida, are demanding public health infrastructure that takes into account cramped living and travel conditions. “Social distancing is not possible.”
Belabored Stories: Cancel Rent
A group of laid-off service workers in Denver is pushing for a total cancellation of rent, mortgage, and utility payments, for at least the next ninety days.
Belabored Stories: A Healthcare Worker Day of Action
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that “any hospital operating off the crisis protocols should let him know,” said one nurse in Brooklyn. “Well, this is us letting him know.”
Belabored Stories: Many Immigrants Won’t Get a $1,200 Check
Millions of immigrant workers are toiling in frontline low-wage industries. But the CARES Act excludes many from its welfare provisions.
Belabored Stories: “Please Stay Safe”
Grocery store workers have become an important point of human contact for customers isolated at home. “People are seeing you in a different light now.”
Belabored Podcast #195: Delivering Us from Coronavirus, with Dania Rajendra
The director of Athena joins us to talk about why Amazon workers have been walking off the job.
[EVENT | April 14] Spring Issue Launch: Know Your Enemy
Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with the guest editors of our Spring 2020 special section on the right.
Belabored Stories: On the Picket Line for Ventilators
General Electric workers want to use the company’s idled manufacturing facilities to make desperately needed lifesaving equipment.
The Unemployment Shock Continues
It took just three weeks to hit the number of U.S. unemployment claims that were reached in forty-four weeks during the Great Recession. And that doesn’t include people unable to access antiquated and overwhelmed state application systems.
Belabored Stories: The Amazon Walkouts Continue
Amazon is hiring thousands of new workers. What happens when they feel they risk more by going to work than by refusing to show up?
Belabored Stories: Education at a Distance
If anything good can come of this massive experiment in remote teaching, a New York City teacher says, it should be “an end to the Silicon Valley fantasy that this is what school can be in the future.”
Belabored Stories: Pretty Evil
No Evil Foods, a vegan food company whose products include “Comrade Cluck,” recently fought a union drive. Now workers feel unsafe in the factory.
Belabored Stories: Will Workers’ Gains Outlive the Crisis?
Grocery store workers at Kroger in West Virginia won extra pay and benefits during the pandemic. “I see this as a truce, and not a victory,” said one. “We can’t settle for anything less than what we actually deserve.”
