325 articles· Covering labor news, worker rights, and workplace policy
Workplace SafetyIreland's Health Service Executive recorded eight serious injuries among healthcare workers following violent incidents during a two-year period when staff reported more than 12,500 workplace attacks, according to figures released by the Irish Independent. The data emerged as staff at Dublin's Mater
Labor Policy & LawBernheimer Architecture in New York employs fewer than a dozen people. In 2024, this tiny firm became the site of the first ratified collective bargaining agreement at a privately owned U.S. architecture practice in roughly half a century.
Workplace SafetyMore than 5,000 workers died on the job in 2024—one fatality every hour and 45 minutes—while federal enforcement of labor protections declined sharply under budget cuts and reduced staffing, according to a report released April 22 by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.
Healthcare & LaborRank-and-file organizing in healthcare facilities lives or dies on one structural question: whether the organizing committee reaches every shift, every department, and every building where workers show up.
Workplace SafetyFifty percent. That's the share of therapists' workdays that Kaiser Permanente claimed the National Union of Healthcare Workers wanted devoted to non-patient care during their contract dispute. Kaiser framed the number as outrageous.
Workplace SafetyThe Institute of Business Ethics surveyed 750 U.S. workers in 2024 as part of a larger global study of 10,000 employees, and one finding stands above the rest: 43% feared reprisals if they raised concerns about workplace misconduct.
Healthcare & LaborAcross U.S. hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies, newly organized worker groups are declining affiliation with established national unions at a growing rate, opting instead to form independent unions with full local union autonomy over dues, governance, and contract negotiations.
Workplace SafetyThe World Health Organization launched comprehensive framework guidelines to combat workplace violence in healthcare settings while the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues enforcement actions despite pushing back federal rulemaking to an undetermined timeline, according to r
Workplace SafetyComputer vision systems mounted in warehouses and factory floors can now identify which workers are wearing hard hats, track how long someone stands in a restricted zone, and flag the exact moment an employee lifts a box at an angle the algorithm considers risky.
Civil Rights at WorkThe 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.
Labor Policy & LawFifty-two percent of newly certified unions don't reach a first contract within a year of winning their election. Nearly a third still don't have one after three years.
Labor Policy & LawToo many union leaders treat digital infrastructure as an IT problem to hand off to whoever on the executive board "knows computers." That's a mistake. Your union's data obligations are written into federal law, and the penalties for noncompliance are real.
