Tag: worker rights

While workers are continuing to struggle under Covid, corporate lobbyists are converging on Capitol Hill to block proposed pro-labor reforms.

“The success of the movement for higher wages... only reaffirms how far out of step lawmakers in Congress are from their constituents, as they continue to refuse to raise the federal minimum wage.”

Robert Reich makes the case for bringing back the old practice of corporations sharing profits with their workers.

Together, you can change the rules, and build a world where workers have real power.

Robert Reich breaks down the political choices that have systematically dismantled worker power over the past 40 years — and how we can build a world where workers have a real voice again.

The shoplifting video is supposed to represent multiple examples of retail theft, but the wage theft settlement is also one example of a widespread issue.

The PRO Act alone won’t end economic inequality or return prosperity and opportunity to America’s working families. But passage of the PRO Act would help.

“The goal for every one of our team members is to ensure all of our brothers and sisters go home safely to their families each and every day.”

“These companies are not going to give you everything out of the goodness of their hearts. They start sweating when they see you standing together.”

Don’t let big corporations pay hundreds of millions to strip workers of the rights and protections they need.