The Employer Compliance Trap: Why Documentation Failures Cost More Than You Think
Federal courts have a straightforward rule for employers who show up without proper timekeeping records: the worker's word becomes the evidence.
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Civil Rights at Work
Immigration and labor, voting rights, racial equity, and workplace discrimination.
37 articles
Intersectionality in Union Organizing: Why Treating Migrant Workers as a Monolith Weakens Campaigns
Los Angeles now hosts dozens of worker cooperatives organized along lines of trade, geography, and cultural identity.
Organizing Migrant Workers Without Erasing Their Identity: A Union Strategy Beyond the Standard Playbook
The AFL-CIO's executive council voted unanimously in February 2000 to abandon a position the federation had defended for over a century. For the first time, the largest labor body in the United States would publicly support amnesty for undocumented workers and oppose employer sanctions.
From Listening to Leading: Why Organizers Who Assume Workers' Needs Lose Campaigns
The most common reason union organizing campaigns collapse has nothing to do with employer interference, bad timing, or weak labor law. It's that the organizer talked too much.
Voter Roll Purges: How They Disproportionately Affect Workers
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Voter Registration and the Labor Movement: Every Vote Counts
The labor movement and voter registration have been linked since the earliest days of organized labor in the United States.
Civic Engagement for Workers: Getting Involved Beyond the Picket Line
When most people think of labor activism, they picture picket lines and contract negotiations. But the labor movement has always extended far beyond the workplace.
Voter ID Laws and Workers: How Election Access Affects Labor
Thirteen percent of Black Americans lack the voter ID their state requires. Five percent of white Americans face the same problem.
How Unions Close the Wage Gap for Women and Workers of Color
The single most effective tool for closing pay gaps in America isn't a corporate diversity initiative. It isn't an unconscious bias training seminar. It isn't even a new law. It's a union contract.
How Immigrant Workers Are Organizing for Their Rights
Every labor victory in this country has an immigrant story behind it. The garment workers who died at Triangle Shirtwaist. The farmworkers who marched with Cesar Chavez. The meatpacking crews who organized across language barriers in the Midwest.
The DREAM Act and the Labor Movement: Standing with Immigrant Workers
The strongest union local I ever visited had meetings conducted entirely in Spanish, with English interpretation provided for the handful of Anglo members who showed up. That detail alone tells you something most people get backwards about immigration and organized labor.
Environmental Justice Is a Labor Issue: Lessons from Flint
The people who told Flint, Michigan residents their water was safe to drink were not the people drinking it. That single fact contains everything you need to understand about why environmental justice labor fights and workplace safety struggles are the same fight wearing different clothes.