Updates
News, viewpoints, and stories from The Workers Lab.
Kicking Off Union-Backed Temp Work at the World Cup
What if you could pick up a shift when you needed work and get a fair wage, real benefits, and the backing of a union? That's the dream realized by UNtemp, a new platform reimagining how workers find...
How 50,000 Workers Transformed Long Grocery Lines Into Bargaining Power Using Worker-Centered Technology
In preparation for its 2025 grocery bargaining campaign, UFCW 3000, representing over 50,000 grocery and healthcare workers across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, leveraged our innovative...
When Websites Become Weapons: How the Feds are Taking Workers Rights Off the Record
Over the past year, federal websites have changed drastically. The content on thousands of sites has been editedto reflect administration policies, removing information about inequality, reproductive...
The Innovation Fund: Last Chance To Apply!
If you've been thinking about applying, now is the time. Applications close on January 30, 2026. We're seeking innovators, organizers, worker-leaders, and technologists who are developing new ideas...
Doing Our Part to Fuel Organizing Right Now
As many of you know, last year we acquired a tech team to build and equip leaders in the labor movement with the tools they need to organize workers in bigger, better, and more efficient ways—a...
Building Worker-Centered Innovation: 6 Key Learnings from Our Climate Justice and Gen AI Fellows
Over the past few months, our Innovation Fund Fellowship brought together a remarkable cohort of leaders from across the country, tackling pressing challenges at the intersections of Climate Justice...
Our 2025 Innovation Fund Announcement
American workers are facing an unprecedented wave of threats: from the dismantling of labor protections and public institutions to rising misinformation, corporate monopolization, wealth inequality,...
Meet Our 2024 Innovation Fund Fellows: Climate Justice and Gen AI
After receiving applications from 10 countries, 33 U.S. states, and D.C, The Workers Lab is proud to announce our 2024 Innovation Fund Fellows—nine visionary leaders building new ideas for and with...
The Workers Lab Announces Participatory Action Research Center: Where Workers Lead Labor Research
The way we understand work needs to change. For too long, research about workers has been done on workers, not by workers. Today, we're excited to announce the launch of our Participatory Action...
"We Are So Tired:” What Young Gig Workers Say About the Future of Work
At The Workers Lab, we're pioneering worker-centered labor research that amplifies workers' experiences and drives change. Today, we're excited to release a groundbreaking new study that gives a...
Now Open for Business: The Workers Lab's New Technology Division
We're thrilled to announce that we have made incredible strides with our new technology division at The Workers Lab, including securing two new client partnerships – with SEIU 503 and MLK Labor...
Innovator Update: The Drivers Cooperative
The Drivers Cooperative provides a socially responsible alternative for riders in New York City, and soon in Denver.
Co-op Dayton: Developing Cooperative Businesses That Meet Community Needs
For nearly ten years, Co-op Dayton has been training and seeding worker-led cooperatives, including a community-owned grocery cooperative, Gem City Market, which opened in a food desert.
Announcing: The Workers Lab 2024 Innovation Fund Fellowship
The Workers Lab is thrilled to announce the 2024 Innovation Fund Fellowship! This year, we are investing in ideas tackling Climate Justice and Generative AI while prioritizing workers' needs to...
Announcing Our 2023 Innovation Fund Winners
The Workers Lab is thrilled to announce that all six of our Innovation Fund Fellows exceeded expectations and will receive additional investment and support to help their ideas succeed and flourish.
"Just Make It Better." What Gig Workers Have to Say About Gig Work
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Welcome to the National Home for Worker-Centered Innovation
Ten years ago, The Workers Lab started as an idea born out of labor organizations, foundations, and individuals in Seattle as an innovation arm that would invest in new ideas for and with workers,...
Innovator Update: Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation
Thunder Valley is a leader in workforce development for youth and implements their programs in ways that are attuned to Lakotan lifeways, re-matriating the land, and building a regenerative community.
Innovator Update: Los Deliveristas Unidos
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Innovator Profile: Rural Ideas Network
The Rural Ideas Network is an Iowa-based nonprofit that focuses on ensuring the same entrepreneurial resources and support that exist in larger cities are available and accessible to rural...