“The Show Must Go On”: Guitar Center Workers Push for First Contracts
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
In Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her brothers grew up in “an America that invested in kids like us...
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
The Institute for Policy Studies’ 2014 Executive Pay Reform Scorecard – part of the just-released latest edition of the IPS...
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders is targeting “corporate deserters” with legislation to ban businesses from receiving lucrative government contracts when...
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
Business owners usually don’t like it when their employees steal from them. For this reason is it is hard to...
In an expected show of solidarity with postal employee unions, the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers will vote Saturday...
Over 77,000 separate foreign banks and financial firms will start sharing information on their American accountholders with the Internal Revenue...
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
John Nichols speaks live from the Kansas City Public Library about the toxic influence of money and the media election...
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
Corporate tax-dodging deals known as inversions, in which a U.S. multinational shifts its tax domicile to a lower-tax country, would...
At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led...
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
Environmentalists are planning to take billionaires Charles and David Koch to court, alleging the brothers’ companies are responsible for polluting...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney is suing Bank of America for mortgage discrimination it claims led...
Protesters dressed up as Apple Store employees in telltale blue t-shirts marched in front of the Union Square store Tuesday...
Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than...
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
Connect the dots between policies that keep many of our fellow Americans desperate, and you’ll see they add up to...