Your boss asking for a doctor’s note is more about controlling labor than worker health.

As peak package season approaches, their union is gearing up for what could be the largest strike against a single company in U.S. history next year.

Workers in Maine, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., are campaigning to end the disparities between those who earn tips and other jobs.

“The boosters being released on top of flu season has decimated my pharmacy. We can’t help anyone anymore.”

He’s blocked a bill to make it easier for farm workers to organize. Now Democrats are worried he’ll do the same for a bill to improve working conditions in fast food.

Efforts to diversify the industry might be having the opposite effect. And although puzzles are an important part of The New York Times’ business strategy, only a handful of people actually make a living from crosswords.

Growing evidence suggests that businesses lack the ability to address worker dissatisfaction. Time to restore an old model.

Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?

The cultural impetus to hustle is built on decades-old political language. Why not try idleness instead?

Stories from the pandemic unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise put out.

From open office plans to gig work cons and fast-food franchises, the question of who’s actually in charge has been intentionally obscured.

In the mid-2010s, the unpaid, coffee-fetching masses appeared to be rising up. But 10 years later, there are few signs that the entry-level revolt happened at all.

More than 1,000 frontline workers are on strike as the pandemic rages in New York City. Could this be a flash of what’s to come?

Ten years out from “The Problem With Work,” the theorist Kathi Weeks considers the current labor crisis, “essential” jobs, and post-pandemic futures

What if workers channeled their passion into organizing for better pay and conditions instead?

A consideration of dirty work, the people who dream of doing it, and what it means for everyone else

You might think I work outside the U.S., beyond the reach of our labor laws. You’d be wrong.

We live in a work-obsessed country that, at least according to the film and television we binge, hates work more than anything.

A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing what you love.”

After decades of being about to catch on, remote work may have finally arrived for good. But at what cost to our privacy and sanity?