This is what unions are for:

Menards is an enormous, privately held home improvement chain owned by a union-hating Republican billionaire. They are now vying for the title of Most Extreme Corporate Overreaction to the 2016 election.

A recent poll found shocking levels of support(!) among business executives for progressive policies like raising the minimum wage and giving all employees steady, predictable schedules. Why does the Chamber of Commerce hate these policies, then?

In America, we have created a system in which most workers receive necessary benefits like health insurance through their employers. That system is falling apart, and we should all be alarmed.

Without meaning to, the CEO of a restaurant corporation that is busily trying to automate employees out of existence is becoming one of the best spokesmen for the idea of providing all Americans with a universal basic income.

Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have left you financially destroyed.

Instacart, the revolutionary company that invented the business of “delivering groceries,” is damn near “profitable!” Well.. sort of. And working at Instacart is much less profitable than it was before.

Yesterday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the right of factory workers to be paid for the time they spend putting on and taking off safety gear. More evidence for the radical proposition: Workers should be paid for the time they work.

Some companies work well with their employees’ unions. Some companies tolerate them. And some companies—like TEGNA, the media company that used to be Gannett—seeks to find the most small-minded ways to make union members’ lives miserable.

Yesterday, Oregon achieved two things: it passed the highest minimum wage in America, and the first minimum wage law that has multiple tiers tied to cost of living in certain areas.

When we speak about “outsourcing” and “free trade,” we speak in abstractions. Here is what these terms look like in practice.

The latest annual statistics on union membership in America are out. The overall union membership rate is holding steady at 11.1%. If you are not a New Yorker or a public employee, your union rates are miserable.

Walmart announced today that it is closing 269 stores, including 154 in the U.S. This is a very bad sign for Walmart. But is it a bad sign for you?

Menards is a large Midwestern home improvement chain most notable for the virulent anti-union mentality exhibited by its billionaire Republican owner. How much does Menards hate its own employees? Let us look.

With the rise of the “gig economy” has come a debate over who is an employee, and who is truly an “independent contractor.” Do we need to create a new category of worker just for the Uber era?

Uber is now worth more money than General Motors. Will the hundreds of thousands of Americans who drive for Uber ever be able to earn a living wage?

Red-hued retail giant Target has had a tough year, but a new CEO and strong holiday shopping demand seem promising for the corporation. How do Target’s workers feel?

It is actually very sad that you may not be shocked to learn that America’s largest corporate employer used expensive private spies to surveil its own employees who had the audacity to ask not to be paid poverty wages.

As CEO of Sprint, Marcelo Claure oversees more than 30,000 employees. He is not afraid to cut every spare dime of company spending (on them).

SunTrust Bank (market value: $21 billion) is currently laying off full-time IT workers and outsourcing their jobs overseas. The bank does require them, though, to stay on call for two years. For free.