{"id":223,"date":"2026-04-08T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:31:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Advancing economic justice, environmental progress, and safe jobs through worker and community education, research, and partnership building.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:73% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FistintheAir.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352 size-full lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FistintheAir.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FistintheAir-300x225.jpeg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than 50 years the Labor Institute has been helping workers stay safe while promoting worker power, environmental protection, and social justice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We train working people and their allies how to lead educational programs for their co-workers and partners using our small group activity method.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our training addresses economic inequality, democracy, labor and the environment, worker safety and health, and mass layoffs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We partner with unions, environmental organizations, community groups, immigrant worker centers and tribal organizations to develop, test, evaluate, and share new educational programs and ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We also write books, articles, and papers to inspire new ways to see the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=40\">Learn More About Us<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=46\">Our Programs<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=97\">Our Publications<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:74px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-contrast-3-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignfull has-text-align-center\"><strong>Join 7,600+ Subscribers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Stay in the loop with Les Leopold&#8217;s Substack newsletter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\">Sign Up<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading alignfull has-text-align-center\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-size:36px\"><em>\u201cThe Labor Institute is an incubator <\/em><em>of ideas. 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