Tag: labor unions
Trump announces plan to cancel pay raises for civilian workers across...
"Congress can and must stand up to the President and reject this assault on our federal workers by passing the 1.9 percent pay raise that the Senate approved on August 1.”
Collective action is key to keeping labor strong
As long as workers band together, they can make concrete improvements in their working conditions.
Billionaire wolves in workers’ clothing
Right-wing “foundations” across the country started spending the tens of millions they’d received from billionaires to bust unions.
How corporations plan to use Janus to turn workers against their...
A union buster may be coming to your door.
Unions have been down before, history shows how they can come...
It’s not the first time this has happened in U.S. history.
Over 90 percent of UPS Teamsters just voted to strike
It would be the largest strike the country has seen in decades.
‘May Day’ militancy needed to create the economy we need
On this May Day, we reflect on the history of worker power and present lessons from our past to build power for the future.
Fighting Inequality at the Local Level
While it's still legal to exercise your First Amendment rights, transit workers in Grand Rapids are organizing against pension theft and fare hikes. It's time we stop widening the inequality gap and start bridging it.
Labor Day 2028
By 2028 will technology replace all work, leaving no one worried about making money? If John Maynard Keynes' prediction is right, we must learn how to redistribute the profits from these labor-saving inventions—and fast.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.