Shawn Fain Takes On Musk, Trump Over Labor’s Green Future

How Panera Bread Ducked California’s New $20 Minimum Wage Law

Starbucks’ Labor Pivot Poised to Spur New Unionization Wave

Chipotle Tells Staff to Skip Eating Chicken, Then Relents

Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor

At SpaceX, Elon Musk’s Own Brand of Cancel Culture Is Thriving

Dollar General Settles With US Over Widespread Safety Allegations

Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)

Cracked Skull, Fractured Bones Show Danger for Rivian Factory’s Workers

What Trump Can Do to Workers’ Biden-Era Gains

Thousands of Federal Employees Land Work-From-Home Deal Ahead of Trump

UAW Reaches Secret Deal With Rivian to Make Unionizing Easier

Giving Four Months’ Notice or Paying to Quit Has These Workers Feeling Trapped

Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York

Starbucks Faces New Front in Its Labor Disputes: White-Collar Workers

The Undercover Organizers Behind America’s Union Wins

Wells Fargo Privately Worries Union “Resurgence” Could Reach Its Workers Next

UK Tories Gamble Their Political Future on Enacting Tough Strike Rules

Amazon’s Injury-Plagued Warehouse Operation Goes on Trial

How Auto Executives Misread the UAW Ahead of Historic Strike

Why Dollar General Might Just Be the Worst Retail Job in America

At REI, a Progressive Company Warns That Unionization Is Bad for Vibes

Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back

Yes, You Can Still Be Fired for Being Fat

Amazon Warehouse Workers Just Redefined What’s Possible for U.S. Labor

Top State AFL-CIO Officer Accused of Misconduct

Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stop

Starbucks Threatens Trans Benefits in Anti-Union Push, Staff Say

Whole Foods’ Battle Against Black Lives Matter Masks Has Much Higher Stakes

Starbucks Ex-Manager Says He Was Told to Punish Pro-Union Employees

How Apple Stores Went From Geek Paradise to Union Front Line

Rivian Employees Say Rapid Production Led to Injuries, Safety Oversights in Illinois Plant

Biden Fires NLRB General Counsel After He Refuses to Resign

The Gig Economy Is Coming for Millions of American Jobs

Lawmakers Look to Spruce Up Gig Work Rather Than Replace It

Amazon’s Win Delivers a Stinging Defeat to the U.S. Labor Movement

Google Turmoil Exposes Cracks Long in Making for Top AI Watchdog

Amazon Work Rules Govern Tweets, Body Odor of Contract Drivers

Labor, Gig Companies Are Said to Be Near Bargaining Deal in N.Y.

Most Americans Can Be Fired for No Reason at Any Time, But a New Law in New York Could Change That

Workers Press for Power in Rare Advance for U.S. Labor Movement

Starbucks Union Vote Sets Up a Watershed Moment for U.S. Labor

Head of Top U.S. Federal Union Resigns Amid Harassment Claims

Tesla Sent Incomplete Injury Reports, California Regulator Says

Now Is the Best and Worst Time for Workers to Go on Strike

Amazon Warehouse Warned Staff Not to Touch Shipments for 24 Hours

Government Staff Say They’re Forced to Come In for No Reason

UFC Wants You to Watch Brawls, Not Its $5 Billion Lawsuit

How the American Worker Got Fleeced

Trump Promised a Coal Comeback But America’s Miners Need an Energy Revolution

It’s Now Even Easier to Fire U.S. Workers for What They Say

Covid Gag Rules at U.S. Companies Are Putting Everyone at Risk

For Teachers Unions, Classroom Reopenings Are the Biggest Test Yet

Election Day Gave Uber and Lyft a Whole New Road Map

Uber Has Bigger Problems to Worry About Than the Shutdown

Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection For Activist Workers

Tesla Staff’s Lost Workdays Triple on Factory Injuries, Illness

Meet Aimee. She’s Trans and Got Fired Because of It

Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers

Google Staff Petition SF Pride to Exclude Company From Event

Teamsters Union Splits From Uber and Lyft on California Worker Rights Law

Connecticut’s Rest-Stop McDonald’s Are New ‘Fight for $15’ Target

Uber Argues Driver Names Are ‘Closely Guarded Trade Secrets’

President of Major U.S. Union Accused of Sexual Harassment

Harassment, Culture of Fear Flourished at Federal Workers Union, Staff Say

McDonald’s Wins High-Stakes Labor Battle With Help From White House

Here are a dozen favorite things I got to write in 2018:

Au Pair Class Action Could Upend Decades-Old Program

West Virginia Teachers Didn’t Want to Strike. Now They Won’t Stop

Trump Labor Board Scrambles to Avoid Pro-Worker Ruling, Lawyers Claim

The Newest Weapons Against Unions Are Employees

Tesla Workers Claim Racial Bias and Abuse at Electric Car Factory

These U.S. Workers Are Being Paid Like It’s the 1980s

Prime Day – Ramadan Conflict Spurs Rare Amazon Worker Agitation

How Tesla’s Model 3 Became Elon Musk’s Version of Hell

Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce

Gig Firms Ask California Dems to Rescue Them From Court Ruling

Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized. Then They Were Dismissed

Tesla HR Chief Suggested Promoting UAW Advocates to Safety Jobs

Here are a dozen favorite things I got to write in 2017:

It’s a New Game For Uber Drivers If New York Passes This Law

Boeing Floods Airwaves in South Carolina Union Grudge Match

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Acosta as Labor Secretary

How Republicans Botched Their Drug Test

These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs

Hotel Money is Funding Anti-Airbnb Sting Operations

Union Power is Putting Pressure on Silicon Valley’s Tech Giants

Unions Are Training Hotel Workers to Face Down Immigration Raids

California Helps Workers Sue Their Bosses. New York Has Noticed.

U.S. Labor Leaders Confront Sexual Harassment in Top Ranks

FEMA Staffers Told They Might Be Billed For Working Too Much

Trump’s Stand-In Bureaucrats May Have Overstayed Limits

Happy Holidays!

Here are a dozen favorite things I wrote this year:

Don’t take my stuff, bro, January 2016

The Walmart case that could expand gay rights at work, February 2016

How Amazon shames warehouse workers for alleged theft, March 2016

How a $15 minimum wage went from fringe to mainstream, March 2016

T-Mobile accused of fighting a real union by creating a fake one, April 2016

Can graduate students unionize? The government can’t decide, May 2016

California’s weird Senate race has Republicans rooting for a Democrat, June 2016

Labor makes Clinton’s case to rust belt whites curious about Trump, July 2016

2016 is the best and worst year to be Jill Stein, August 2016

Black Lives Matter leader says even great people can be part of the problem, August 2016 (cover story)

Uber found an unlikely friend in organized labor, October 2016

How couples do money, December 2016

Here are a dozen favorite things I wrote this year.

OSHA is still working on silica, September 3, 2015

How Obama hurts Clinton (and helps Sanders) with unions, August 10, 2015

Why unions aren’t uniting behind Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, August 3, 2015

SEIU’s odd recipe for unionizing fast food, July 2, 2015

The new law that would outlaw LGBT discrimination everywhere, June 25, 2015

The lessons unions learned from the ‘Justice for Janitors’ protests, June 16, 2015

Microsoft’s unionized contract workers get aggressive, April 30, 2015

Conservatives regroup on religious freedom bills, April 14, 2015

Rand Paul’s favorite union-buster, April 3, 2015

Unions try to get between banks and their customers, March 19, 2015

Volkswagen’s sort-of union in Tennessee, February 19, 2015

Walmart may be cheap, but it would rather give up money than power, February 19, 2015

Here are some favorites from 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011. Thanks for reading! Happy Holidays!

Here are a dozen favorite things I wrote this year.

FedEx Ground Says Its Drivers Aren’t Employees. The Courts Will Decide, Businessweek, October 2014

OSHA Will Put Workplace Safety Data Online As Nudge to Employers, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 2014

Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse As Health Issue, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 2014

NFL Commissioner Says He Knows Nothing About Cheerleader Pay, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 6, 2014

A Year After Deadly Bangladesh Factory Disaster, How Much Has Changed?”, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 2014

Terry Richardson and the Nasty Sexual Harassment Loophole, Salon, July 9, 2014

OKCupid’s Gay Rights Stunt Has Its Limits, Salon, April 4, 2014

Why Zionist Leader Mort Klein is Still Fuming at Christie (And Us), Salon, April 4, 2014

Exclusive: Fox and Friends Poster Child Accused of Bullying Employees Over Safety Risks, Salon, March 31, 2014

Exclusive: Target’s Cheesy Anti-Union Propaganda Gets a Modern Makeover, Salon, March 19, 2014

Straight America’s Gay Baggage, Salon, February 10, 2014

“We’re Gonna Lose Everything”: One Family’s Urgent Unemployment Story, Salon, January 27, 2014

Here are some favorites from 2013, 2012 and 2011. Thanks for reading! Happy New Year.

Here are a dozen of my favorite pieces I wrote this year:

Alt-Labor, The American Prospect, February 2013 issue

Starbucks Tycoon Bullies Baristas, The Nation, February 18 issue

Guest Workers as Bellwether, Dissent, Spring issue

Will Immigration Reform Protect Workers?, Reuters, July 17

How Wal-Mart Keeps Wages Low, The Washington Post, September 12

I worked all week for free?!: The horrifying, true story of $0 paychecks, Salon, September 27

Inside the mind of angry GOP: Rep. John Culberson talks to Salon, Salon, October 2

A Reboot for the AFL-CIO?, The Nation, October 14 issue

Sorry, Frank Bruni: Liz Cheney is no worse than Congress Salon, November 21

Massive Black Friday strike and arrests planned, as workers defy Wal-Mart, Salon, November 29

Biggest ever fast food strike today, Salon, December 5

Exclusive: Chris Hayes attends secret union meeting with unhappy NBC workers, Salon, December 12

Here are some favorites from 2012 and 2011. Thanks for reading. Happy holidays!