By Ben Jealous — Electric vehicles (EVs) are the future of transportation. As a driver of an (American-made) electric vehicle myself, I know firsthand the amount of money I have…
By Julianne Malveaux — For all of 2023, overall unemployment have been below 4 percent. These rates are lower than they have been for 50 years. People should be celebrating…
Good union jobs built America’s blue-collar black middle class. But the percentage of black workers in manufacturing has been halved since the 1970s, yielding poverty and precarity. We can’t achieve…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — It’s official, America has entered the Great Resignation. In August of 2021, 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs, and the quit rate, measured…
By Rand Wilson and Peter Olney, The Stansbury Forum — Against nearly impossible odds, a new independent union called the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has won the first NLRB-supervised union certification election…
This op-ed argues that Black labor organizers have long recognized that better conditions for Black and brown workers result in better conditions for everyone. By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Katie…
The world’s largest online retailer is no longer union-free in the U.S., following a remarkable election victory by an independent union. By Dave Jamieson, HuffPost — Amazon warehouse workers on…
Thousands of workers beat the odds and voted to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the US. By Caitlin Harrington, WIRED — A SCRAPPY GROUP of Amazon workers in…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Walking down a busy urban street, one cannot help but notice the number of “help wanted” signs that grace the front of many establishments. Restaurants,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I had not planned to have a policy conversation when I boarded my connecting flight from Detroit to DC. But the young white woman, totally…
Employment and wages soared in the latest labor report, but that’s small comfort for the many workers with a job that doesn’t pay a living wage. By Jeffrey Kucik and…
Google continues to build up its pipeline of Black talent with its latest ambitious initiative. By Njera Perkins— This story was originally published on Feb 15, 2021 by AfroTech. Last…