Robin Broad is a professor at American University. John Cavanagh is the director of the Institute for Policy Studies. They’re the authors of The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed.
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.