Custodians Ensure Our Well-Being. It’s Time We Ensure Theirs
Evalynn Romano, the daughter of custodians, offers clear, achievable solutions to affirm the dignity and health of this largely BIPOC workforce.
Labor
YES! Media’s coverage of labor includes reporting on organized labor—the power and pitfalls of unions, for instance—as well as visions of a future beyond the commodification of human labor currently enforced by racial capitalism. We lift up voices integral to emergent labor movements, as well as calls to change the way the world consumes labor and prioritizes it above human, environmental, and planetary well-being. Ultimately, our coverage envisions a world where labor is not compulsory for survival.
Why Empowering Workers Is a Form of Reparations
Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion. A crucial part in the discussion on reparations today should center on reshaping the labor relationship between employers and employees.
Care Workers Demand Federal Support as First Responders in Climate Crises
Domestic care workers have been overlooked in the economy and as political actors for too long.
On Board with Queer Labor and Racial Solidarity
It was okay to be gay in the Marine Cooks and Stewards. And in the 1940s, MCS integrated to become one of the most progressive unions in the United States.
Biden Bets Big on the Care Economy
The president’s American Families Plan takes its cue from feminist economists who have long advocated for a renewed focus on the social safety net.
A Union Fight at Amazon’s Alabama Warehouse Builds on Civil Rights Work
An attempt by thousands of mostly Black workers to unionize at a fulfillment center gives new life to the labor movement.
This Labor Rights Bill Could End Up Hurting Gig Workers
New federal legislation makes the same mistake a California law did, which cost thousands of jobs.
Unions and LGBTQ Workers Could Be a Powerful Marriage
History has shown that people-power is one of the best ways to advance rights and win protections, especially when the courts are unreliable.
A Better Option For the Gig Economy
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There’s a better way with platform cooperatives.
How to Start a Union When You Don’t Have the Right
The growers have the money but . . . the farmworkers have the time. —Cesar Chavez From 1962 to 1993, more than 2,200 people—all ages, all walks of life, and
Unsung Black Heroines Launched a Modern Domestic Workers Movement—Powered By Their Own Stories
The struggle for labor rights started decades ago among private household workers, mostly Black American women.
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