Fast-Food Workers Plan Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
By Giovanna Vitale and Jack Temple for #FightFor15. Fast-food workers announced Friday that an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for $15 and union rights will hit this primary season to...
View ArticleMost Charter Schools Are Public In Name Only
By Steven Singer in Gadfly on the Wall Blog. As a public school teacher, I can never recall being at a training where charter operators taught us how to do things better with these time-tested...
View ArticleLabor’s Neoliberal Caucus: Work With Corporations, Don’t Fight Them
By Warren Heyman & Andrew Tillett-Saks for Jacobin. Democrats have historically been the grudging partners of the labor movement, the more willing of the two major political parties to make...
View ArticleWorkers Protest Sexual Harassment In More Than 30 States
By RT. Female workers at McDonald’s are sick of being treated like meat. They are accusing the Golden Arches of not protecting employees against sexual harassment. Backed by the minimum wage campaign...
View ArticleBusiness Associations Urge No Lame Duck Vote On TPP
By Coalition for a Prosperous America and American Sustainable Business Council. Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous American (CPA) and the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) released...
View ArticleNewsletter: Time For Boldness, Clarity & Assertiveness
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. In this moment, the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice needs be bold, clear and assertive in putting forth an agenda...
View ArticleWarehouse Workers ‘March On The Boss’ Of Verizon In Memphis
Warehouse workers at XPO Logistics’ Verizon facility “marched on the boss” on October 1 in a marked escalation following months of worker complaints and legal filings over abuse, joined by community...
View ArticleHunts Point Produce Workers Continue Their Strike
Bronx, New York - Essential workers who distribute 60% of the city's fruits and vegetables to supermarkets and restaurants have entered day three of a work strike—the first in 35 years–at Hunts Point...
View ArticleAs Meatpackers Stoked Fears Of A Shortage, Exports Increased
Last year, as the meatpacking industry’s frontline workers were infected with Covid-19 and the industry pushed claims of a meat shortage, companies in the U.S. exported more than $22 billion in meat...
View ArticleBiden Has Abandoned His Covid Worker Safety Pledge
Until she got her first Pfizer shot on July 16, Cindy Cervantes toiled in the Seaboard Foods pork processing plant in Guymon, Oklahoma for most of the pandemic without a vaccine — working unprotected...
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