Sunday, May 5, 2024

The costs of a casual job are now outweighing any pay benefits

The evidence on hourly wage differences leads us to conclude that casual workers are not being adequately compensated for the lack of paid leave, or for other forms of insecurity they face.

Hurricane wars

Wake up folks and understand why many of us suffer unnecessarily.

A beautiful moment of socialism. But now killer capitalism resumes

America at its best is a community of people working together without visions of dollar signs in their eyes.

Labor Day 2017: Working families move closer to paid parental leave

For the nation’s poor working parents, the absence of paid leave is only the visible top of an iceberg of workplace challenges.

From carpet to clean air: It’s time for California to stand up for environmental...

Our representatives should uplift our health and quality of life not in words, but with action.

A New Bill of Rights for Workers: 10 demands the labor movement can fight...

It is time for unions to return to demanding workers’ rights without apology. 
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Video: Cop assaults and arrests nurse for refusing to draw blood

Although Payne has been suspended from the department’s blood draw program, the abusive detective remains on active duty while under internal investigation.

Fox & Friends attacks public schools for teaching climate change and LGBTQ issues

Pete Hegseth: Parents “don't understand that even our public schools today ... have an agenda”

Women play key role in solar energy projects

Many women from rural areas around the world are now actively taking the responsibility to protect the environment, their families and livelihoods.

Hurricane Harvey must prompt clarity, anger and action

We must realize we are no longer powerless to understand the world’s greatest challenge, but empowered to tackle it.