Tag: workers rights
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.
Shop stopped: Grocery store strike of 31K workers receives support from...
Stop & Shop will need to make a decision: either invest in people power or continue to lose money.
Sanders vows to ban ‘disastrous’ anti-labor ‘right-to-work’ laws
"We are in a blatant class war in the U.S. and we cannot win unless we as workers unite and unionize. Bernie knows this. And he will fight to make it happen."
Marriott hotel strikers set a new industry standard
Their common demands focused on three areas – job security, workload, and wages and benefits – and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.”
Eight holiday gifts American workers need
Here are eight gifts that would convert workers’ blue, blue, blue, blue Christmases to white.
‘We are not robots’: Amazon workers across Europe walk out on...
Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out," says a U.K. union leader.
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Bernie urges FDA to swiftly resolve drug recall
"We also believe that FDA’s responsibility to American patients includes a responsibility to be transparent when possible, a commitment that has not been fulfilled in this case.”
Pete Buttigieg is a sharp corporate tool
The mayor continues to falsely characterize Medicare for All -- no matter how much confusion and disinformation he creates along the way.
Military spending’s out of control while slashing it could easily fund Medicare for All
Moment of truth on military spending in the NY Times.
‘Corruption’ and ‘disgrace’: White House confirms that G7 summit will exclude any mention of...
"Not only is Trump using the powers of the presidency to enrich himself, which is blatantly unconstitutional. He is ignoring a massive international crisis that threatens humanity. What a disgrace."
The far right’s war on culture
How to displace the great replacement: It really does boil down to us versus them.