Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
Workers at one of Amazon’s warehouses are deciding whether or not to join a union. Amazon’s union-busting efforts indicate just how important the vote is. Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, ...
Scalia has rolled back rules that protected workers’ retirement security. This should be seen as a gift to private equity firms, not a favor to workers. (Common Dreams) Private Equity (PE) firms have had their ...
Chipotle’s fine was the largest in state history and the latest in a series of industry labor abuses. Qdoba, a Chipotle competitor, and franchisees of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and Burger King have all been hit with ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A bill to raise taxes on ...
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A new congressional bill ...
After their successful strike earlier this year, Oakland teachers are still fighting off charter schools and changing the narrative of public education. While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
“His views are dangerously out of the mainstream.” After President Trump officially nominated corporate lawyer Eugene Scalia to serve as secretary of Labor last week, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said his federation of labor unions ...
“Look, our members are still waiting for the supposed greatness of this economy to reach their kitchen tables.” The president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation ...
While Barstool Sports claims to be free of sexism and exist to be a place free of ‘PC culture,’ their actions over the years speak otherwise. Earlier this week, Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool ...
“The real (inflation-adjusted) minimum wage is now roughly 30 percent lower than it was in 1968, and it has been more than 10 years since Congress raised the minimum wage.” The House voted on Thursday ...
Due to the strike, about 130 stores of various supermarket chains owned by the company remained closed, while more than 100 operated for half day. (Peoples Dispatch) On July 10, more than 17,000 workers, working ...
The PRO Act would make it easier to form unions and force employers to pay a price for violating workers rights. (By Alan Barber and Liz Watson, Inequality.org) More workers engaged in collective action last ...
Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. ...
Started in 2012, Fight for 15 has been at the forefront of mobilizing workers across industries to demand a USD 15 minimum wage and the right to unionize without retaliation. (PeoplesDispatch) In the run up ...
“Surging corporate use of forced arbitration has already blocked over half of private-sector nonunion employees from suing when they experience discrimination, harassment, or wage theft.” One year ago the Supreme Court dealt a major blow ...
“Uber says it can’t pay its drivers more money, but rewarded its CEO with nearly $50 million last year.” – Elizabeth Warren on Lyft, Uber strike A Lyft and Uber strike was held worldwide and ...
Sellers on the Amazon marketplace allege the company’s marketplace favors Amazon private label brands over independent sellers. The largest internet company in the world, Amazon, is being investigated for monopoly power abuse in Germany. While ...
The workers in Amazon warehouses in Europe sought to highlight atrocious working conditions, including Injuries from accidents, overworked employees collapsing unconscious on the floor, constant robotic surveillance and workers having to skip toilet breaks to ...
A coffee farm in Brazil certified by Starbucks was raided for forcing workers to live and work in conditions officials called similar to slavery. Officials in Brazil raided a coffee plantation and rescued 18 workers ...
A report outlines the changing nature of labor and how employers and employees must prepare for the future as job automation technology replaces manual labor. A new report from the World Economic Forum titled “The ...
(By James Barragán, Reveal) Just days after Hurricane Harvey released its grip on Texas a year ago, Guillermo Martinez Ayme was hard at work in the rebuilding effort. He was one of more than 100 workers ...
“The minimum wage law very clearly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay ...
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Growth, growth, growth! Winning, winning, winning! That’s the story we get from our beloved president, Donald J. Trump, at least. As many of us can attest to, though, what he says may ...
The constant shouting about how women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes is a misleading and ultimately inaccurate statement. Women are working more than they ever have and are in turn making ...
Internal documents obtained by The Guardian show how a network of right-wing think tanks have launched a nationwide effort to convince members of public sector unions to stop paying dues. (Democracy Now transcript) The effort ...
Is the American economy becoming great again under the Trump administration’s pro-business economic policies, prolonging the extended recovery following the 2007-2009 recession? Are wages finally beginning to inch upward? Is inflation getting out of control? ...
More than 50 organizations rallied thousands of protestors for the annual May Day March in Los Angeles to raise awareness for workers and immigrant rights. Past marches rallied hundreds of thousands of protestors and despite ...
Reposted with permission from The Free Thought Project. Article by Claire Bernish. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, confirmed to the position Thursday by the U.S. Senate, is one in a string of disputed appointees to President ...
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