Tag: workers rights
May Day mass action will be a historic ‘strike from below’
“We need to show this administration, Congress and large corporate interests that our human and economic worth is more powerful than their agenda of hate and greed.”
Guilty of grand theft overtime
A new ruling denies overtime protection to millions of workers.
Fight For $15 Update: When Truman Doubled Minimum Wage
Economists and analysts tell Bloomberg News that wage increases in service and retail sectors are helping retailers by putting “more money in the pockets of some of their biggest customers: their own employees.”
Workers In This State Will Soon Be Guaranteed A Paid Day...
Five states in the country will now guarantee paid sick leave for their workers.
Why the Sharing Economy Is Harming Workers – And What Must...
In a sharing economy all economic risk is shifted onto workers. Uncertainty is hard on everyone - it's time to shift to a more secure economy.
The Morality of a $15 Minimum
A national movement is growing for a $15 an hour minimum wage rase—workers at fast-food and big-box retail establishments are striking for a raise. So when will corporate America start moving toward this goal?
Fighting Inequality at the Local Level
While it's still legal to exercise your First Amendment rights, transit workers in Grand Rapids are organizing against pension theft and fare hikes. It's time we stop widening the inequality gap and start bridging it.
Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons
Even though George Pullman was a feudalistic 19th-century profiteer, he considered himself a beneficent employer as he suppressed the wages of his factory workers. In current times, is our tax money going to finance a monument for his greed?
How Not to Give Employees a Raise
One CEO wants to give his workers a raise, but in doing so, he would like to receive corporate subsidies. Wait, he actually wants us taxpayers to give money to rich corporations so they can pay their employees?
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Beyond revoking the New Deal, MAGA Trumpism reignites the Civil War, thus must defame...
This herd of minority deplorables defines a gang of spoiled brats, outraged whenever told NO! What extremist doesn’t want power they think will serve selfish, private, undemocratic needs, values and interests?
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
Systematic abuse: Israeli soldiers and officers detail widespread use of Palestinians as human shields...
Multiple Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians have confirmed to the Associated Press that the Israeli military has routinely used Palestinians as human shields during the war on Gaza, despite international bans and longstanding denials from the IDF.
The self-liquidation of U.S global leadership
Why the world’s richest nation is killing the world’s poorest children.
NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...
NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.