Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
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Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
Players voted to accept Major League Baseball’s offer on a new labor deal, paving the way to end the 99-day lockout and salvage the season.
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A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
The enslaved people who produced sugar before the Civil War did dangerous and grueling work.
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While women felt more included when they perceived male colleagues as allies, men who saw themselves that way reported more personal growth as a result.
It’s estimated that over one-third of all private companies require their employees to sign noncompete clauses.
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While noncompetes may make sense for well-paid executives who possess trade secrets, they make less sense for low-paid workers – yet many are subject to the agreements.
EEOC complaints often result in retaliation.
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An experimental study found that the vast majority of women didn’t support a pay policy that corrected for an advantage they received, slightly more than men in the same position.
The utopian community modeled on the industrialist’s principles lasted only two years.
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Can companies legally require workers to get vaccinated? Employers have gotten so good at finding ways to get employees to comply with their policies that it may not matter.
Parenthood in 2020 is perhaps tougher than usual.
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Not all Americans can take paid leave, and some workers can’t take any time off at all if they or their loved ones get sick. Those are big problems during pandemics.
Uber drivers have fewer labor rights than most full-time employees.
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A scholar of the American safety net explains how, through her own brother, she’s getting a personal window into what it means to face COVID-19 as a worker in the gig economy.
Single-parent families are getting less paid leave but perhaps need more of it.
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Research suggests that kids benefit when there are fewer of them in a classroom. But quickly reducing class size can cause new problems as schools scramble to hire new teachers.
Chances are she could be fired for ‘moral turpitude.’
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