Tag: workers rights
Marriott hotel strikers set a new industry standard
Their common demands focused on three areas – job security, workload, and wages and benefits – and the slogan, “One Job Should Be Enough.”
Eight holiday gifts American workers need
Here are eight gifts that would convert workers’ blue, blue, blue, blue Christmases to white.
‘We are not robots’: Amazon workers across Europe walk out on...
Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out," says a U.K. union leader.
Unions can protect workers from deportation. This coalition of 3.5 million...
The Teamsters is one of the labor unions taking a stand to protect TPS holders with the message that immigrant rights are worker rights.
Why domestic workers are fighting like hell to stop Brett Kavanaugh
“Every day, I hear stories of working women just like me, stories full of pain, fear, silence and same.”
Bernie releases statement on Amazon minimum wage increase
“What Mr. Bezos has done today is not only enormously important for Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be a shot heard around the world."
America’s great strike waves have shaped the country. We can unleash...
Erik Loomis’ "A History of America in Ten Strikes" is a powerful reminder of the need for worker militancy.
Americans work too much already
The Save American Workers Act would do nothing of the sort, but it would force many employees to log more hours.
Donald Trump has betrayed the working class.
He still claims he’s on their side. That’s one of his biggest lies of all.
Disneyland Resort raises minimum wage to $15 for thousands of more...
The resort, located in Anaheim, California, and hotel cast members from United Here! Local 11 "ratified a five-year term" increasing the minimum wage to $15 effective January 2019.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.