Tag: workers rights
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.
Retail workers nationwide are united for respect
Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act.
How New Yorkers stood up to Amazon and won
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
How to protect the right to organize
An economy is only as healthy as its workers are empowered.
‘Becoming a green, sustainable society:’ Shorter work weeks is one of...
"This new paper from Autonomy is a thought experiment that should give policymakers, activists and campaigners more ballast to make the case that a Green New Deal is absolutely necessary."
Again, the US is a no-vacation nation
Nearly 1-in-4 Americans receive no paid vacation or holidays.
American workers are not happy
Americans clearly are working harder and longer and better. The solution is to change the system, which is stacked against workers.
‘Shame on Uber:’ Drivers on strike worldwide protesting ‘poverty wages’
"This is an act of solidarity with drivers across the country, and really across the world, who are suffering with poverty wages."
Workers around world mark May Day with marches and rallies demanding...
"A fighting workers' union is the answer" to workplace injustice.
Solidarity at the Stop & Shop
The workers of Stop & Shop only took to the picket lines after months of contract negotiations. They are mainly asking for their company not to cut their pensions or have increases their healthcare costs.
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Deputy resigns after charged with shooting unarmed woman and lying to investigators
Recorded on police dashcam video shooting an unarmed woman in the groin, a Florida sheriff’s deputy was indicted Wednesday on charges that...
‘This illegal and dangerous pipeline must be shut down’: Standing Rock Sioux renew the...
The tribe is asking for a pause in construction while a thorough environmental assessment, this time with input from the tribe is conducted.
Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal plan
Yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his version of a Green New Deal proposal which seems to be the most aggressive plan compared...
Media bias and movement building: Bernie Sanders’ revolutionary 2020 campaign
“Bernie Sanders makes my skin crawl. And I can’t even identify for you what exactly it is.” Former assistant U.S. attorney Mimi Rocah on...
Are terrorist watch lists expanding under Trump?
My wife, Joyce, and I recently traveled to Vienna for a week, where she had been invited to perform on Austrian state...