Tag: workers rights

An economy is only as healthy as its workers are empowered.

"This new paper from Autonomy is a thought experiment that should give policymakers, activists and campaigners more ballast to make the case that a Green New Deal is absolutely necessary."

Nearly 1-in-4 Americans receive no paid vacation or holidays.

Americans clearly are working harder and longer and better. The solution is to change the system, which is stacked against workers.

"This is an act of solidarity with drivers across the country, and really across the world, who are suffering with poverty wages."

"A fighting workers' union is the answer" to workplace injustice.

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.

Stop & Shop will need to make a decision: either invest in people power or continue to lose money.

"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."

Their common demands focused on three areas – job security, workload, and wages and benefits – and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.”