9 Sep 2014: Sara Ziff: The unregulated modeling industry relies on young, mostly foreign girls working their way out of impossible debt. For all the criticism about weight, shouldn’t we get legal rights?
4 Sep 2014:
Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership
4 Sep 2014: Steve Rose: From the micro-solidarity of Two Days, One Night, via the political corruption of On the Waterfront and everything Ken Loach has ever made to new feelgood mining drama Pride – labour rights are a surprisingly cinematic topic
2 Sep 2014: Sarah Jaffe: As long as politicians see billionaires as their base, they won’t vote for $10 an hour. So workers have taken matters into their own hands
18 Aug 2014:
Though contracts with 2,500 singers, musicians and crew have expired, opera company continues to negotiate with 10 unions to avert lockout
12 Aug 2014: Valerie Braman: The anti-union celebrities (and their secret backers) have taken the war on teachers public. But educators shouldn’t have to defend doing our jobs