Tag: workers
Biden’s DOL rule aims to protect workers from misclassification
This move, set to take effect in March, aims to provide clarity and protection for workers often caught in the ambiguity of employment classifications.
Keeping workers poor is bad for business
At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.
How Joe Biden can help workers without Congress
Taken together, these three executive orders will improve the lives of millions of Americans.
The deathly tragedy of American exceptionalism
So who and what’s to blame for the worst avoidable loss of life in American history?
On Labor Day, US workers are 1/3 poorer than in 2003...
Since the government supplies services to people, and it can no longer afford to provide the same level of service, this “tax cut” is actually a tax on workers.
Don’t subsidize companies that silence workers
When workers can’t organize or speak out, their lives — and ours — may be at risk.
American workers are not happy
Americans clearly are working harder and longer and better. The solution is to change the system, which is stacked against workers.
The real reason American workers have it so hard
No wonder they’re unhappy. The system is working against them.
Solidarity at the Stop & Shop
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.
How to hold corporations accountable
It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.