Biden Tax Boost Targeting the Rich Called ‘Fair, Popular, and Long Overdue’
While far-right Republicans continue threatening to blow up the global economy unless Congress makes cuts to popular social programs, progressive...
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Biden Plans To Shore Up Medicare By Making The Rich Pay Their Share
President Biden’s plan to save Medicare raises taxes on the wealthy and eliminates a loophole that allows the rich to...
Democrats Dismiss Solvency Fearmongering While Offering Social Security Fix
Following a dramatic State of the Union moment in which President Joe Biden called out Republican proposals to slash Social...
Manchin-Romney attack on Social Security is ‘last thing we need’: Sanders
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday slammed right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s widely panned proposal to explore slashing Social Security...
Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize
In December 2021, Winifer Pena Ruiz got a new job at a Chipotle in the Bronx. She was an aspiring...
Starbucks Union Workers Have a Holiday Wish: Don’t Buy Starbucks Gift Cards
Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has a birthday on Friday, and is holding ten rallies across the country to celebrate with the...
Over 100 Starbucks Stores Go on Strike to Protest Company Union Busting
Workers for more than 100 Starbucks locations nationwide are staging a strike on the company’s “Red Cup Day” on Thursday...
Former Twitter VP urges companies pull advertising from platform — citing Elon Musk’s ‘toxic takeover’
Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton is urging advertisers to pull their money from the microblogging...
UN Chief Blasts PR Industry for Spearheading Big Oil’s Propaganda Machine
During his wide-ranging plea for fundamental change delivered Tuesday at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, U.N....
Democrats Target Big Oil for Stifling Free Speech to Block Climate Action
Civil libertarians applauded Wednesday as a U.S. congressional committee held a hearing to “examine how the fossil fuel industry is...
Starbucks creating ‘culture of fear’ as it fires dozens involved in union efforts
More than 85 workers at Starbucks who were heavily involved in union organizing efforts at giant coffee chain have been fired over...
Judge Orders Starbucks To Reinstate 7 Fired Union Supporters In Memphis
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Starbucks must offer reinstatement to seven workers in Memphis who were fired...
Why Trader Joe’s employees are fighting to unionize
There was a big lie that modern corporations sold to American workers in the late 20th century and into the...
‘They don’t care about us’: US Starbucks workers allege they were fired for union activity
Nine Starbucks workers at three stores in Denver, Colorado, who were fired shortly after their stores voted to unionize allege they were...
Senator Sanders pushes for windfall profits tax on Big Oil
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday slammed oil companies for raking in huge profits on the backs of U.S. consumers and...
Apple Store Workers In Maryland Become First To Unionize
Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another...
Shell Consultant Quits, Citing “Disregard For Climate Change Risks”
Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she...
Democrats Demand Funds for Underfunded Labor Board
As labor uprisings heat up and spread across the country, a group of House Democrats is calling for an increase...
Apple Store Workers in Atlanta File for Union Election
Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday,...
In Jab at Manchin, Sanders Demands ‘Strategic Pause’ in Corporate Welfare
Repurposing a phrase right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin recently used to obstruct social spending and climate legislation, Sen. Bernie Sanders...
‘David Beats Goliath’: Workers in New York Vote to Form Amazon’s First-Ever Union in US
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant’s first-ever union in the...
Airport Workers Protest Across US Demanding ‘Living Wage’ and Right to Union
Contracted airport workers—including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, security officers, and wheelchair agents—in more than 20 U.S. cities staged coordinated demonstrations Wednesday...
Katie Porter Takes Her Whiteboard To House Medicare For All Hearing
Progressive U.S. lawmakers, public health advocates, and universal healthcare campaigners testified Tuesday at the first congressional hearing on Medicare for All legislation...
Fonda Launches Climate PAC to Break Big Oil’s ‘Stranglehold’ on US Politicians
Vowing to “do whatever it takes to defeat the political allies of the fossil fuel industry, no matter which side of...
Democrats Introduce Windfall Tax on Big Oil
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced the bicameral Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to target price gouging by profit-gorging fossil fuel companies...
Grassroots energy projects are taking back power from utility companies
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
‘Give Workers a Fair Shake,’ Sanders Implores CEOs in Speech to Kellogg’s Strikers
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed a Michigan rally of striking Kellogg’s union workers and their supporters, calling on all...
‘Acting Like Republicans’: Sanders Rips Manchin and Sinema for Betraying US Families
With Democrats’ Build Back Better package hanging in the balance, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday called out fellow...
Why Amazon is terrified of its U.S. workers unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that a historic union vote held earlier this year among Amazon...
Bernie Sanders Is Showing the Democrats How to Take on Joe Manchin
For months, Bernie Sanders has been making a case for the multitrillion-dollar reform bill he’s spearheaded in the Senate. Now,...
Biden Fires Trump’s Social Security Saboteurs
President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, after Saul refused...
Biden targets big tech in executive order aimed at anti-competitive practices
Joe Biden has signed an executive order targeting anti-competitive practices across the economy that could have major ramifications for America’s...
Elizabeth Warren grills JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon over overdraft fees
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., grilled J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday, calling claims that...
Katie Porter Confronts Big Pharma CEO And Destroys The Lie Behind High Drug Costs
Rep. Porter broke down how much money Big Pharma companies spend to make money and said, “So, Mr. Gonzales, you’re...
Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End ‘Absurd Corporate Handouts’ to Fossil Fuel Industry
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
Ossoff Urges Businesses To Stop Donating To GA GOP Over Voting Restrictions
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on...
Biden Administration Takes Out The Trump Trash By Getting Rid Of 40 Trump EPA Appointees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
Georgia activists call for Coca-Cola boycott over ‘deafening silence’ on voting rights
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
The Amazon Union Election Is Unusual. Amazon’s Robust Anti-Union Campaign Isn’t.
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
President Joe Biden offers support to Amazon workers in a pro-union video
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Workers find power in Fight for $15 movement
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Warren Urges Raise in Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour for Federal Contract Workers
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
Argentina Approves Tax on Millionaires to Fund COVID-19 Recovery
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Progressives Demand McConnell ‘Get Serious’ About Coronavirus Relief
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
