McDonald’s boasted about distributing protective equipment to employees. But one worker said masks, hand sanitizer, and gloves were only available “for a brief period of time. So it was only to get us to be quiet.”
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.
States like California have yet to roll out a system to process gig workers’ unemployment-assistance applications. Rideshare drivers are running on fumes.
The broken federal funding system is reflected in the dangerous conditions faced by many mail carriers.
Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.
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.
Millions of immigrant workers are toiling in frontline low-wage industries. But the CARES Act excludes many from its welfare provisions.
The director of Athena joins us to talk about why Amazon workers have been walking off the job.
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?
No Evil Foods, a vegan food company whose products include “Comrade Cluck,” recently fought a union drive. Now workers feel unsafe in the factory.
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the economy. Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute joins us to discuss the disappointing relief bill that was signed into law today.
As the coronavirus spreads across the world, we discuss what it means for workers in healthcare, the gig economy, and other frontline industries.
If they can disrupt the supply chain, Amazon workers could transform an industry that constitutes one of the commanding heights of the twenty-first-century economy.
Why is the labor movement in Minnesota thriving? SEIU Local 26 joins us to talk about the Twin Cities’ robust network of grassroots worker centers and unions.
Sarah and Michelle talk about this year’s biggest labor stories.
