Tag: worker rights
The man in the bathtub, December 1, 1940
The 1930s were a rough time for all who labored.... Or sought work.
Labor Day 2017: Working families move closer to paid parental leave
For the nation’s poor working parents, the absence of paid leave is only the visible top of an iceberg of workplace challenges.
A New Bill of Rights for Workers: 10 demands the labor...
It is time for unions to return to demanding workers’ rights without apology.
LGBTQ workers still face employment discrimination
In an era when 90 percent of America believes it is unfair to discriminate against someone due to their sexual orientation, it’s remarkable we haven’t made this law.
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.
Companies can either make things or make CEOs rich
Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.
Forty plus years later & nothing changes
“It took me 13 years before I ever attempted to get a job with a corporation again.”
Coal communities ask Trump to honor his promises
They want Trump to take action to make sure coal CEOs and companies keep promises to restore the landscape and local environments by “reclaiming” the old mines, which would mean jobs in coal communities.
The man in the bathtub, December 1, 1940
The 1930s were a rough time for all who labored... Or sought work.
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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.
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.
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.”