Tag: labor

The USDA is facing lawsuits for shirking its responsibility to protect birds from animal welfare violations.

Vulnerable workers, abused animals and a rigged system are the foundation of an unethical, destructive business model.

The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.

Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.

The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support.

She’s exactly the kind of judge corporate donors support.

The federal government long ago created various agencies to protect workers’ rights and safety, but Trump turned them into appendages of corporate America.

The addition of anti-worker Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the right-wing-dominated Supreme Court will help the rich tighten their stranglehold on working people.

Although Donald Trump won the White House with a vow to reinvigorate a manufacturing base essential for America’s future, he failed to stanch the torrent of U.S. corporations absconding to countries with abysmal working conditions and lax environmental regulations.

“Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings.”