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Labor

What Work Is Like in the U.S.

133 stories published since 2015

Ex-IBM Executive Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Names of Employees Over Age 50 Who’d Been Laid Off

The Los Alamos Lab Worker Who Started a Year Too Late for Benefits

In an 18-Year-Old Program to Help Ill Nuclear Workers, a Petition Has Lingered for 10 Years

Ill Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed Within 6 Months. Some Have Languished About a Decade.

Half-Life

Amid Accusations of Age Bias, IBM Winds Down a Push for Millennial Workers

Private Trash Haulers Resist New Safety Measures

How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities

At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight

Treated Like Trash

Hell on Wheels

Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM

Treated Like Trash

Injured Nuclear Workers Finally Had Support. The Trump Administration Has Mothballed It.

Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

One Night on a Private Garbage Truck in New York City

Florida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers

Se lesionaron en el trabajo. Y entonces fueron deportados.

They Got Hurt at Work. Then They Got Deported.

Senator Demands Answers From Case Farms

The Breakthrough: A Reporter Crosses Borders to Uncover Labor Abuse

Supreme Court Won’t Take Up R.J. Reynolds Age Discrimination Case

Can Low-Wage Industries Survive Without Immigrants and Refugees

Case Farms Responds to Our Story

Vendidos por Piezas

Sold for Parts

Conociendo los orígenes de la mano de obra de Case Farms

Photos: Returning to the Roots of Case Farms’ Workforce

Inside Corporate America’s Campaign To Ditch Workers’ Comp

The Fallout of Workers’ Comp ‘Reforms’: 5 Tales of Harm

How Much Is Your Arm Worth? Depends On Where You Work

‘I Try to Forget’

The Demolition of Workers’ Comp