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Wages, the workplace, and the hands that feed us.

Empower workers or government overreach? California’s fast food bill tests labor laws.

01.11.2022
Jackie Botts + Jesse Bedayn
The Counter’s most read stories of 2021
12.23.2021
by The Counter
Fast food workers are using 911 call logs to draw attention to a hidden “crisis of violence”
12.14.2021
by Jessica Fu
Starbucks workers vote to unionize in Buffalo
12.09.2021
by Matthew Sedacca
Source, subject, and reader: A farm worker weighs in on short stories about an agricultural community like her own
12.09.2021
by Tina Vasquez
Thousands of farmworkers will see pay raises in 2022
12.07.2021
by Melissa Montalvo
New emails shed light on meat company CEOs’ pandemic lobbying
11.15.2021
by Madison McVan
She spent years as an ag journalist, often writing about how precarious life can be for small farmers. Then she started farming.
11.11.2021
by Beth Hoffman + Jesse Hirsch
Food service has been a notoriously difficult industry to unionize. Coffee shop workers have emerged as a potential bright spot.
10.28.2021
by Matthew Sedacca