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Anita Hill Started A Conversation About Sexual Harassment. She’s Not Done Yet
In 1991, attorney Anita Hill testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her when he was chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and she worked there as an adviser to him.
How to survive your workplace holiday party
Dancing on the tables. Spilling a drink on the boss. It’s that time of year when you could get it all wrong at the office holiday party.
How to get through a holiday party at work without embarrassing yourself
Work holiday parties are back in full force this year. Etiquette expert Elaine Swann talks to NPR’s Michel Martin about how to get through them without embarrassing yourself.
The Big 3 offered ‘life-changing’ raises. Why thousands of autoworkers are voting ‘no’
Autoworkers at the Big 3 once set the gold standard for middle class life, with good wages and lifelong benefits. But that hasn’t been true for a long time.
UAW workers at major Ford and GM truck plants vote ‘no’ on record contract deals
Autoworkers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky., voted no on the contract agreement reached by the United Auto Workers union.
The UAW won big in the auto strike — but what does it mean for the rest of us?
The United Auto Workers staged an unprecedented strike against the Big Three Detroit automakers — and they emerged with three big, lucrative deals. But the wider impact on the rest of the country is much less clear.
Why workers are resorting to more strikes this year to pressure companies
Fifty years ago, in the early 1970s, Joe Uehlein was a construction worker in Pennsylvania, building a bridge over the Susquehanna River.
UAW members aren’t all assembling cars. More and more are unionized grad students
On a recent Saturday, a crowd marched in the rain outside a Stellantis parts distribution center in Tappan, N.Y.
Why the UAW strike could last a long time
As the United Auto Workers strike is set to enter its third week, one thing is for certain: The union is prepared for a long fight against the Big Three automakers.
Why this fight is so personal for the UAW workers on strike
Eric Mullins, a third-generation UAW worker picketing outside the massive Michigan Assembly Plant near Detroit, wasn’t itching to strike.
A new law in Texas, the Crown Act, prohibits race-based hair discrimination
A new Texas law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination has inspired one woman to try to give back to Black and minority communities across the country.
California could become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste
A bill in California awaiting the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom would ban caste discrimination in the state. But the legislation has revealed deep divisions in the South Asian community.
2 Black TikTok workers claim discrimination: Both were fired after complaining to HR
About a year into her sales job at TikTok, Nnete Matima had what she describes as her first-ever panic attack.
How Shawn Fain, an unlikely and outspoken president, led the UAW to strike
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has been in that office less than six months, and already he has launched a series of targeted strikes at factories owned by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.