“This reflects the deliberate invisibilization of the foreign worker; the whole machinery of state operates as though they don’t exist.” With COVID-19 taking a grip on countries all over the world, people are being told ...
Workers at the New York fulfillment center denounced the company for reopening the facility just one day after the positive case was reported. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Two days after 1,500 Amazon workers around ...
“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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
“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 ...