Tag: workers rights
Why your Chipotle burrito costs more
Instead of complaining about a so-called “labor shortage,” Republicans ought to be complaining about the shortage of jobs paying a living wage.
Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic
Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.
Fossil fuel companies got $8.2 billion in tax bailouts—then fired over...
BailoutWatch highlights four companies that got tax windfalls but still fired workers.
Envision or perish—why we must start imagining the world we want...
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
A Green New Deal for workers
"It puts forward the types of changes needed to give workers a fair deal in the United States."
How Donald Trump abandoned America’s workers when they needed him the...
“I don’t trust him.”
Monopoly mayhem: Corporations win, workers lose
Big corporations have become so dominant that workers and consumers have fewer options and have to accept the wages and prices these giant corporations offer.
Bernie demands federal COVID-19 protections for airline employees
“We must put the safety of passengers and workers ahead of corporate profits.”
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from...
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.
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Trump planning to run in 2024? From his jail cell?
This guy is a political crook that has been allowed to run free—so far.
Trump’s suicidal gut instinct at work: ‘Fix those ‘rigged’ elections or we won’t vote.’
Trump can’t stand that he can't punch one hole in one state’s tabulations, thus his ever-tiresome "rigged election" lies, taking the untenable to the unthinkable.
Toxic Clichés
Our students will be facing challenges beyond what we can begin to imagine, if these past few years are any indication, crises that require far-ranging intelligence, imagination, sensitivity.
Manchin fumes after Sanders op-ed in West Virginia paper calls out obstruction of Biden...
"Congress should proceed with caution on any additional spending and I will not vote for a reckless expansion of government programs."
Follow Alabama’s lead on child care
If one of our poorest states can rise to meet this basic human need, why can’t Congress?