Tag: workers rights
Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic
Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.
Fossil fuel companies got $8.2 billion in tax bailouts—then fired over...
BailoutWatch highlights four companies that got tax windfalls but still fired workers.
Envision or perish—why we must start imagining the world we want...
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
A Green New Deal for workers
"It puts forward the types of changes needed to give workers a fair deal in the United States."
How Donald Trump abandoned America’s workers when they needed him the...
“I don’t trust him.”
Monopoly mayhem: Corporations win, workers lose
Big corporations have become so dominant that workers and consumers have fewer options and have to accept the wages and prices these giant corporations offer.
Bernie demands federal COVID-19 protections for airline employees
“We must put the safety of passengers and workers ahead of corporate profits.”
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from...
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.
How COVID-19 showed America’s dependence on blue-collar workers
These workers are the lifeblood of the nation. They step up every day and keep America running—even during a pandemic.
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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
The most valuable lesson Democrats could actually learn from Biden
Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.
Exposure to synthetic chemicals in food poses health impacts, new study reports
Their conclusion: a need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.
Food giants’ climate plans lack credibility, new report finds
The annual report, which analyzed the climate strategies of five of the world’s top 10 food and agriculture corporations, is the latest in a slew of reports that show how the largest food companies are failing to tackle their environmental impacts.