Tag: workers rights

“We put money into it. We deserve it back.”

Forty-two Republicans—and serial Democratic obstructionist Joe Manchin of West Virginia—voted down Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) proposal to include seven paid sick days in the tentative contract.

"We have to make Amazon pay all its workers a decent wage in dignified workplaces and for its environmental damage."

A Nov. 8 referendum will give Illinois voters the opportunity to enact a “Workers’ Rights Amendment” to the state constitution.

Dozens of unions in the United States and Canada with contract language providing domestic violence survivors with the resources crucial to breaking free of their abusers.

"Howard Schultz and Starbucks are getting creamed in union vote after union vote."

Starbucks Workers United is racking up victorious union votes in one branch after another of the iconic American coffee chain. A young California-based worker-organizer explains why this organizing campaign is different.

Perhaps some economists can tell a story where rapid wage growth is driving inflation even as the wage share of income is falling, but I’m not that good an economist.

Let’s hope it marks the beginning of a renewal of worker power in America.

"There's nothing about working on an app, or having some flexibility in your work schedule that means people need to forfeit basic workers' rights."