Labor

What Work Is Like in the U.S.

155 stories published since 2015

Why a Struggling Rust Belt City Pinned Its Revival on a Self-Chilling Beverage Can

by Dan O’Brien, The Business Journal

May 11, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Did Your Company Get Bailout Money? Are the Employees Benefiting From It?

by Justin Elliott, Paul Kiel and Lydia DePillis

May 6, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
Life and Death, But No Trash Pickup: Diary of a Young COVID-19 Nurse

by Ryan Gabrielson

April 24, 2020, 2:30 pm EDT
Millions of Americans Might Not Get Stimulus Checks. Some Might Be Tricked Into Paying TurboTax to Get Theirs.

by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel

April 15, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Inside the Union Where Coronavirus Put 98% of Members Out of Work

by James Bandler

April 9, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
A Nurse Bought Protective Supplies for Her Colleagues Using GoFundMe. The Hospital Suspended Her.

by Marshall Allen

April 7, 2020, 11:06 am EDT
ER Staffing Company Reverses Benefits Cuts for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus

by Isaac Arnsdorf

April 6, 2020, 2:56 pm EDT
New York Wants Health Workers to Join the Fight Against COVID-19. Will It Pick Up Their Medical Bills if They Get Sick?

by Sean Campbell and Talia Buford

April 1, 2020, 6:43 pm EDT
¿Qué sucedería si se enferman los empleados que cortan las carnes del país?

por Michael Grabell

April 1, 2020, 2:25 pm EDT
What Happens If Workers Cutting Up the Nation’s Meat Get Sick?

by Michael Grabell

March 28, 2020, 1:25 pm EDT
The VA Will Now Let Some Administrative Staff Work From Home

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

March 25, 2020, 6:44 pm EDT
Obreros “esenciales” de fábricas temen ir al trabajo y no pueden permitirse quedarse en casa

por Melissa Sanchez

March 25, 2020, 11:43 am EDT
“Essential” Factory Workers Are Afraid to Go to Work and Can’t Afford to Stay Home

by Melissa Sanchez

March 24, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Letter Carriers Say the Postal Service Pressured Them to Deliver Mail Despite Coronavirus Symptoms — and Often Without Hand Sanitizer

by Maryam Jameel

March 18, 2020, 4:50 pm EDT
Spencer’s Pressured Employees to Come to Work, Selling Gag Gifts and Sex Toys, Until We Called

by Alexandra Zayas

March 18, 2020, 2:29 pm EDT
The CDC Recommends Americans Stay at Home — Unless They Work for the CDC

by Yeganeh Torbati and Maryam Jameel

March 17, 2020, 10:51 am EDT
Millions of Federal Workers Still Waiting on Work-From-Home Order During Coronavirus Pandemic

by Yeganeh Torbati

March 16, 2020, 9:57 am EDT
Coronavirus Panic Buying Puts Grocery Workers and Shoppers at Risk of Infection

by Alexandra Zayas

March 16, 2020, 9:18 am EDT
The Postal Service Fired Thousands of Workers for Getting Injured While Delivering and Processing Your Mail

by Maryam Jameel

February 24, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Have You Been Injured Working for the U.S. Postal Service?

by Maryam Jameel

February 24, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Chemical Companies Are Building Their Plants Overseas and Shipping Them Back In. They Still Get State Tax Breaks.

by Sara Sneath, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate

December 6, 2019, 12:30 pm EST
Black Farmers Say a Top Chicken Company Turned Them Away

by Isaac Arnsdorf

November 8, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Trump’s USDA Is Letting Factories With Troubling Safety Records Slaughter Chickens Even Faster

by Isaac Arnsdorf

October 3, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Ex-IBM Executive Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Names of Employees Over Age 50 Who’d Been Laid Off

by Peter Gosselin

January 29, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Ill Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed Within 6 Months. Some Have Languished About a Decade.

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican

November 30, 2018, 5:00 am EST
The Los Alamos Lab Worker Who Started a Year Too Late for Benefits

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican

November 30, 2018, 5:00 am EST
In an 18-Year-Old Program to Help Ill Nuclear Workers, a Petition Has Lingered for 10 Years

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican

November 30, 2018, 5:00 am EST
Half-Life

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican

October 26, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
Amid Accusations of Age Bias, IBM Winds Down a Push for Millennial Workers

by Peter Gosselin and Ariana Tobin

September 19, 2018, 2:22 pm EDT
Private Trash Haulers Resist New Safety Measures

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica

September 19, 2018, 11:55 am EDT
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities

by Alec MacGillis

September 11, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica

September 5, 2018, 5:34 pm EDT
Treated Like Trash

by Lucas Waldron and Katie Campbell

June 10, 2018, 12:00 am EDT
Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM

by Peter Gosselin

May 17, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
Treated Like Trash

by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America

May 4, 2018, 9:30 pm EDT
Injured Nuclear Workers Finally Had Support. The Trump Administration Has Mothballed It.

by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican

March 9, 2018, 7:00 am EST
Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

by Kiera Feldman, The Investigative Fund

January 4, 2018, 8:00 am EST
One Night on a Private Garbage Truck in New York City

by Al Shaw and Kiera Feldman, The Investigative Fund

January 4, 2018, 8:00 am EST
Florida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers

by Howard Berkes, NPR News, and Michael Grabell, ProPublica

August 24, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Se lesionaron en el trabajo. Y entonces fueron deportados.

by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR News

August 21, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
They Got Hurt at Work. Then They Got Deported.

by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR News

August 16, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
Senator Demands Answers From Case Farms

by Michael Grabell

August 10, 2017, 3:24 pm EDT
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Crosses Borders to Uncover Labor Abuse

by Joaquin Sapien

June 30, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Supreme Court Won’t Take Up R.J. Reynolds Age Discrimination Case

by Peter Gosselin

June 26, 2017, 5:35 pm EDT
Can Low-Wage Industries Survive Without Immigrants and Refugees

by Michael Grabell

May 5, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Case Farms Responds to Our Story

by ProPublica

May 4, 2017, 11:06 am EDT
Sold for Parts

by Michael Grabell

May 1, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
Vendidos por Piezas

by Michael Grabell

May 1, 2017, 5:00 am EDT
Photos: Returning to the Roots of Case Farms’ Workforce

by Michael Grabell

May 1, 2017, 4:59 am EDT
Conociendo los orígenes de la mano de obra de Case Farms

by Michael Grabell

May 1, 2017, 4:59 am EDT