Thursday, May 29, 2025

Tag: labor

Disneyland Resort becomes one of the highest minimum wages in country...

The minimum wage increase comes after four labor unions representing employees pressured Disneyland Resort for months.

Collective action is key to keeping labor strong

As long as workers band together, they can make concrete improvements in their working conditions.

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.

‘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.

What Does It Take to Survive Where You Live?

A new report concludes that current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour doesn’t come close, anywhere in the United States.

Prostitution: Being Raped for a Living

Rachel Moran, like many other girls and women, was forced into prostitution—desperate and homeless. Now a prostitution abolition activist, writer and blogger, Moran has created an organization for survivors of prostitution and is striving for its outlaw.

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Plastic is poisoning the soil that grows our food

New research finds agricultural land holds 23 times more microplastics than oceans, with toxic particles infiltrating crops, ecosystems, and human bodies while global regulation lags behind.

The richest Republicans in Congress push tax cuts for themselves while slashing food, healthcare,...

A new report reveals 35 of the wealthiest GOP lawmakers—worth over $2.5 billion—stand to profit from Trump’s tax cuts while their constituents lose access to SNAP, Medicaid, and student aid.

NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...

NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.

The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and the fight to...

Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.

Trump pledged to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ then cut a program many tribes rely...

The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.