Kim Kelly

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Kooper Caraway, the head of the state’s AFL-CIO, is done with thinking small.

A power struggle over police unions rattles the heart of the American labor movement.

They earn below the minimum wage, with no benefits or sick days—amid a pandemic, no less.

Abolishing police unions should be part of the broader fight to defund, demilitarize, and ultimately dismantle the U.S. police force.

The pandemic has disrupted supply lines across the country, and people are taking manufacturing into their own hands—including gun owners.

A holiday dedicated to workers injured or killed on the job takes on a darker resonance as work grows more dangerous in a pandemic.

With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.

Cenk Uygur talked a good game about The Young Turks being the premier progressive media outlet. Then his staff tried to unionize.

Against the opulence of the NFL's biggest night, workers in Miami went on a hunger strike for living wages.

Hotel and restaurant employees paved the way for today's fight against workplace sexual harassment and violence.

Chipotle claims to serve “food with integrity.” How the chain treats its workers is another story.

California’s Katie Porter studied under Elizabeth Warren. Now she’s going viral by schooling Republicans on Capitol Hill.

More than a century after Upton Sinclair's gruesome "The Jungle," the president is loosening rules that protect workers and consumers alike.

Some 5,000 union workers from the state's university system are scheduled to walk out on Monday.

Inmates are among the most vulnerable populations on our warming planet—and among the most ignored.

The labor movement needs to take a stronger stand against agents of Trump's barbarous immigration policies.

What a harassment campaign reveals about a darling journal of the intellectual dark web.

The flight attendant union leader knows how to strike fear in the heart of bosses—and not just in the airline industry.

Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.