Tag: workers rights

Now is the time to put the basic foundation in place that will make us all safer and more secure in good times, and more resilient when disaster strikes.

"I deserve to be respected at my workplace - which is others' home - and to receive the same rights and protections that other workers receive."

Workers are seeking higher pay, protection of their healthcare benefits, greater job security and a commitment from GM to build more cars and parts in the United States.

Strikers are making a stand for equality for temps and second-tier workers.

When workers can’t organize or speak out, their lives — and ours — may be at risk.

It is time to correct the decades of diminishing worker rights and shrinking unions as well as low-pay.

There is a new push, at both the state and federal levels, to provide U.S. workers with many of the benefits that workers in other countries have long taken for granted.

In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.

Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act.

Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.