Tag: workers rights
Why America’s health care workers are escalating their fight for fair...
“People are sick and tired, and they’ve had enough, and they’re ready to stand up and fight back.”
10,000 striking John Deere workers demand ‘equitable’ pay & benefits as...
Thousands of workers are on strike at John Deere after the United Auto Workers failed to reach an agreement with the company to improve wages.
Why your Chipotle burrito costs more
Instead of complaining about a so-called “labor shortage,” Republicans ought to be complaining about the shortage of jobs paying a living wage.
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.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages
Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.