Tag: workers rights
Big brands: The missing voice in the fight to end gender-based...
Women workers and their labor organizations are uniting across borders to demand work that is free of gender-based violence, pays a living wage, and promotes women’s initiative and leadership at all levels.
The ‘jobs for everyone’ fantasy
For the CEOs, soothing talk about a surging economy is a lot easier than actually investing in the country that made them rich.
Over 90 percent of UPS Teamsters just voted to strike
It would be the largest strike the country has seen in decades.
US CEOs are world’s best – for themselves
U.S. CEOs certainly do deliver the best results for themselves. They certainly do not, on the other hand, deliver the best results for average people in their nations.
How Trump and the GOP’s SCOTUS screw workers
Billionaires and corporations provide the money that fuels this anti-worker machine.
Thinking beyond Trump: Why we need a federal jobs guarantee
Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.
Sanders and colleagues introduce Workplace Democracy Act to end corporate bullying...
The introduction of this act will strengthen the middle class by restoring workers' rights to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions.
A sick new game from the executive suite
The corporate push to replace real pay with cheap “psychic income" is on the rise.
Accusations brought against Betsy DeVos’ Education Department for failing to negotiate...
“Secretary Betsy DeVos and her management team are attempting to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and kill the union.”
People are showing they’ve had enough
People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”
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GOP-led states risk leaving 10 million children hungry by rejecting $1.14 billion summer food...
Twelve Republican-led states face a January 1 deadline to join the Summer EBT program, a lifeline for millions of hungry kids, as advocates urge governors to act amid rising food insecurity and economic challenges.
More than 120 House Democrats urge Biden to ratify Equal Rights Amendment as deadline...
Lawmakers push President Joe Biden to finalize a constitutional ban on sex discrimination while Republicans invoke past deadlines to stall progress.
Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t just unqualified and inexperienced—they’re morally bankrupt
While every president has a right to select their own Cabinet appointees, the Senate also has the Constitutional authority to decide whether each nominee is fit to serve.
6 fracking Billionaires and climate denial groups behind Trump’s cabinet
Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.
Endo’s end around: How one of the nation’s largest opioid makers escaped a $7...
Endo “came with a strategy purposely intended to reduce payments to opioid victims."