Labor

One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. They say strikes should be considered only as a “last resort”

For American women, the battle for the right to vote was long and hard-fought, pitting three generations of suffragists against the nation’s political and economic establishment. When the vote was finally won, with the ratification of the

The American Post Workers Union’s president, Mark Dimondstein, told CNN in an interview Friday that the union has received a number of reports … over the last two weeks that mail delivery has slowed and “degraded.”

“The National Employment Law Project’s Michele Evermore makes it her business to understand the nation’s unemployment system,” writes Jessica Goodheart in L.A. Progressive, “a bureaucracy that receives attention only

“On Monday, the platform committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted 125-36 not to include Medicare for All in the party’s platform,” writes Eric Blanc in Jacobin. “Faced with a pandemic that has revealed the catastrophic