Tag: worker rights
New report offers blueprint for a ‘clean slate’ for workers to...
“Democracy at work should be a right, not a fight.”
(Burying) ‘The Salt of the Earth’
The main brunt of this empire's tactics is to instill this 'Dog eat Dog' mentality into we working stiffs.
5 ways to stop corporations from ruining the future of work
We should all be able to steer the direction of technological change and influence how new technologies affect our lives.
To tackle ills of ‘unfettered capitalism,’ Sanders plan would give workers...
Taking aim at the vast inequities produced by America's business-dominated economic system, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday unveiled a far-reaching proposal that would roll...
Have researchers just hit an inequality trifecta?
At racetracks all across America, lucky bettors every so often rake in small fortunes when the horses they pick to finish one,...
In week three, GM strikers hold firm for making temps permanent
General Motors workers have been on the picket lines for 17 days now, and just picked up their first weekly strike pay of...
Miners fight to keep their pensions as the coal industry collapses
While the Trump administration is making moves, like replacing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan rule that was created to regulate carbon...
CBO analysis shows $15 federal minimum wage would raise pay for...
A Congressional Budget Office analysis published Monday showed that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would significantly increase pay...
The time has come for a global minimum wage
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this June. In the wake of a devastating world war, its mission...
How keeping workers safe benefits employers
Companies are beginning to understand that creating safe working environments bring various benefits aside from protecting profits.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.