Tag: jobs
A New Bill of Rights for Workers: 10 demands the labor...
It is time for unions to return to demanding workers’ rights without apology.
American workers seek trade enforcement, not protection
A good first step would be imposing Trade Expansion Act penalties that are as strong as American defense must be.
A government in a state of paralysis; no plan, no vision...
It’s time to begin the process of cleaning house and sweeping these grossly incompetent politicians out of Washington.
Stop blaming workers, the bosses made this mess
Immigration reform cannot be separated from labor and trade reform. We can't fix the former without dealing with the other two.
The 21st Century presented America with exciting new opportunities; what in...
The stagnation, the regression that plagues America will continue. One day the people of America might rise up to put an end to it. But when is that ever going to happen?
What our grandchildren will do when the jobs are gone
These are the jobs that should command respect, now and in the future.
Trade denialism continues: Trade really did kill manufacturing jobs
This level of dishonesty separates trade out from most other areas of public debate.
Trump’s job boast
“The entire announcement appears to be a restatement of commitments that were first made informally as early as 2015, and made more formally in early 2016, at least six months before the election.”
Funny, there are no workers on the White House jobs panel
Trump’s whole “jobs” panel is made up of Wall Street banksters and corporate powers.
Trump twists jobs numbers
For the Keystone XL project and the Dakota Access Pipeline, no more than 57 percent of the steel will be from the U.S.
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.