Tag: workers rights
How Trump and the GOP’s SCOTUS screw workers
Billionaires and corporations provide the money that fuels this anti-worker machine.
Thinking beyond Trump: Why we need a federal jobs guarantee
Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.
Sanders and colleagues introduce Workplace Democracy Act to end corporate bullying...
The introduction of this act will strengthen the middle class by restoring workers' rights to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions.
A sick new game from the executive suite
The corporate push to replace real pay with cheap “psychic income" is on the rise.
Accusations brought against Betsy DeVos’ Education Department for failing to negotiate...
“Secretary Betsy DeVos and her management team are attempting to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and kill the union.”
People are showing they’ve had enough
People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
We are Luddites
"THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! ... EEK! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!"
Monsanto’s in trouble again: Mega corp faces class action suit over...
Legal aid lawyers and experts say cases they see are a small sample of all the violations that occur.
‘Together and unified,’ AT&T workers launch three-day strike
This strike comes as part of the largest-ever contract mobilization at AT&T Mobility.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.