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The laws that govern work are being rewritten in courtrooms, agencies, and bargaining rooms, and most workers hear about it after the fact. This series covers strikes, contracts, and the legal architecture behind them, from Greeley to the Sixth Circuit. Independent. Unbought. Unfiltered.

The Overtime Rule Is Gone. The DOL Called It a Technicality.

The Overtime Rule Is Gone. The DOL Called It a Technicality.

The DOL called rescinding the overtime rule “a technical correction.” What it actually did was permanently eliminate overtime protections for 4 million workers. The language is designed to ensure it doesn’t read like a policy decision. It was.

The Election Was the Point. They Took That Too.

The Election Was the Point. They Took That Too.

A bourbon distillery in Kentucky is not where most people would expect federal labor law to get rewritten. But the Sixth Circuit just used it to dismantle one of the most significant worker protections built in the last decade. Most workers don’t know it happened.

The Streets Were Full. The Question Is What Comes Next.

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The Streets Were Full. The Question Is What Comes Next.

Thursday happened. Thousands marched. The coalition was the broadest it has been in years. The administration dismissed it before the marches ended. That gap is the thing worth sitting with this Monday morning.

The Strike Fund America Never Had

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The Strike Fund America Never Had

American labor has always known the problem: workers run out of money before employers do. Union Now is the first attempt to build a national structure that changes that calculation. The question is whether the architecture matches the ambition.

The Strikes They Didn’t Teach You. The Losses You’re Still Paying For.

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The Strikes They Didn’t Teach You. The Losses You’re Still Paying For.

The eight-hour workday, the weekend, the right to organize. None of these arrived because employers decided to be generous. They arrived because workers held a line at tremendous cost. Here is what that cost actually looked like.

The Rulebook Has Been Rewritten. Most Workers Don't Know Yet.

The Rulebook Has Been Rewritten. Most Workers Don't Know Yet.

The largest meatpacking strike in 40 years ended without a contract. The legal architecture that was supposed to make that posture costly has spent a year being dismantled. A bourbon distillery, a quorum gap, and fifty years of precedent explain what happened in Greeley.

They Came Back to the Table. JBS Didn't Move.

They Came Back to the Table. JBS Didn't Move.

The largest meatpacking strike in 40 years ended without a new contract. 3,800 workers returned to work Tuesday on good faith. JBS returned to the table without moving its offer by a single cent, on $415 million in quarterly profits. The negotiations resume today.

They Do Not Want a King, They Want Their Country Back

They Do Not Want a King, They Want Their Country Back

More than 3,000 protests. All 50 states. One question the mainstream coverage is not asking: when organized labor, antiwar organizers, and immigrant rights coalitions march together, is that still just a protest?