Thursday, December 26, 2024

Tag: labor rights

United Nations expert castigates Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash over ‘disgraceful’ labor practices

UN rapporteur challenges corporate giants on poverty wages and labor violations.

Toyota ignites wage hike wave in wake of UAW’s labor deal...

In a strategic move mirroring the UAW's historic victories, Toyota embraces a wage hike for its U.S. workforce, spotlighting the broader impact of union momentum in the auto industry.

Labor education starts in school

Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation’s capitalism-fueled inequality.

Why do we have weekends?

While many workers now enjoy weekends won by organized labor, the fight continues for those who don’t. 

Caution: Children at work

Is the Return of child labor the latest sign of American decline?

How the labor movement is showing up for LGBTQ+ rights

The hope is that more labor activists will understand how common queer workers are and see how supporting them actually strengthens the labor movement.

Study shows large minimum wage hikes boost both earnings and employment

In the absence of federal action, a record number of U.S. jurisdictions are set to raise their minimum wages in 2023—in many cases above $15 an hour.

This one thing would increase wages by $300 billion 

Non-compete agreements block workers from seeing higher wages or better working conditions. And they enlarge corporate monopoly power by stifling competition.

Labor, rights groups praise Biden policy boosting migrant worker protections

"This is a huge victory for undocumented workers and the labor movement," said one organizer.

Lessons on workplace activism from winning campaigns at Google

Forcing a company with Google’s market capitalization and branding power to change its policies is a massive achievement with important lessons to offer.

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Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?

Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.

Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for vigilante violence

The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.

The world’s four legacy empires going down

In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.

Trump’s pick to lead federal housing agency has opposed efforts to aid the poor

Such views would seemingly place Turner at odds with the core work of HUD, a sprawling federal agency that serves as a backstop against homelessness for millions of the nation’s poor, elderly and disabled.

It was the rage of the age

Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?