In a 224-194 party-line vote, Democrats brought workers’ rights to the political forefront as the election season ramps up. The US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at bolstering the power of labor unions ...
“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 ...
French protesters scored a major victory over the weekend when French President Emmanuel Macron scaled back one of his planned pension reforms, but not all are happy. The French government announced a major concession in ...
“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 ...
Drawing on harsh experiences in their home countries, Central Americans immigrants in the U.S. have played key roles in organizing labor movements. (Elizabeth Oglesby, The Conversation) In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, ...
“Without unions, there will be no institution in American politics advocating for policies that benefit the vast majority of Americans who do not own capital.” Sen. Bernie Sanders released a new plan on Wednesday that ...
“In a free and open democracy, the government doesn’t use taxpayer resources to keep itself in power. That’s what authoritarian dictatorships do.” Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Pennsylvania were reportedly ordered to ...
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 ...
A Rust Belt progressive in the vein of Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ryan supports programs like “Medicare for all,” yet spoke in favor of the simplifying the tax code. With a rally looming on Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio, Rep. ...
Was Amazon’s $15 minimum wage pay raise merely a public relations stunt? Some workers at grocery store chain Whole Foods are complaining that after receiving a much-lauded pay raise last fall their hours are being ...
The Yellow Vest Movement continues to grow in Europe despite France’s recent attempt to quell protests with an anti-hooligan law. (Peoples Dispatch) French trade unions organized a general strike, and massive mobilizations on Tuesday, seeking ...
A series of reforms passed in Hungary is being called the “slave” labor law and sparking thousands to protest. Thousands of people gathered for five consecutive days of protest in Budapest last week to protest ...
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 Sunlight Foundation, by Eliza Newlin Carney) When Colorado public school teachers rallied in Denver this spring to demand better school funding and retirement benefits, two fed-up GOP legislators had a novel idea: Why not pass ...
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 ...
Today is day three of the 20,000 plus strong U.C. Worker’s strike in California. The AFSCME Local 3299 Union is striking to protest the growing inequality at the University of California healthcare system. The University ...
“We are united in lifting up our fellow Americans.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) As President Donald Trump continues to come under fire for failing to deliver sufficient help to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria—which killed ...
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