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...
Category: Workers
‘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...
Unionized employees are leading the fight for safer workplaces
A worker at the International Paper mill in Prattville, Alabama, was performing routine maintenance on a paper-making machine in mid-June...
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...
The Role Of Unions In Electrifying Everything
As a result of human economic activity, the planet confronts a climate emergency. Bold and conclusive solutions are required to...
Solar power for free? This nonprofit offers installation, panels, and maintenance at no cost
For most homeowners in the U.S., it will take roughly eight years to break even on a solar power investment....
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,...
‘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...
How Joe Manchin betrayed America’s working families
Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to...
Coal miners union urges Joe Manchin to support the protections BBB offers them
When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his allies defend his opposition to parts of President Joe Biden’s economic...
Country’s largest coal miners union urges Manchin to support Biden’s Build Back Better agenda
The largest coal miners union in the United States is pushing back against Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) adamant opposition toward...
‘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...
‘Profits Above Workers’: Amazon Pounded Over Tornado Deaths At Warehouse
Amazon was accused Saturday of putting corporate profits above worker safety following the tornado-caused partial collapse of a St. Louis-area...
Majority of World’s Oil and Gas Workers Want to Seek Employment in Renewable Energy Industry
More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in...
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...
President Biden Raises Minimum Wage for All Federal Contract Workers to $15
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal celebrated Monday’s announcement from the U.S. Labor Department that all federal contract...
Solar job numbers keep rising
The ongoing ravages of Covid-19 last year, and related solar power price inflation, failed to dent the photovoltaic industry’s ability...
Manchin plan to gut Biden agenda would support 2 million fewer jobs per year
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposal to lop $2 trillion off his own party’s social spending and climate agenda would support...
CEO Pay Rose 1,322 Percent Over 42 Years, While Worker Pay Rose Only 18 Percent
A new analysis released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEO pay in the United States rose by...
26 million workers have gotten a raise thanks to the Fight for $15
The Fight for $15 kicked off in November 2012, with a relatively small—yet also historically large—group of New York City...
Infrastructure Plan With Major Climate Investments Would Create 26 Million Jobs
A report released Friday by Data for Progress and Evergreen Action shows that an infrastructure package with $2.6 trillion in...
Report Shows Stimulus Checks Significantly Reduced Hardship for Families
A new report finds that the direct relief checks that were sent out as part of the stimulus packages passed...
How the business lobby created the “labor shortage” myth — and GOP used it to slash benefits
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar jobs report that sent politicians, economists and leaders in corporate America scrambling for...
As Workers Struggled, Boardrooms Found Ways To Reward CEOs During Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the restaurant industry in March 2020, fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle instituted a 10% “appreciation pay”...
Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
Pushing back on the right-wing narrative about the reason for real or perceived labor shortages in some markets nationwide, progressives...
Biden Order Will Raise Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers to $15 an Hour
President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
How employers punish workers for forming unions
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Faces of Greed: The Walton Family of Walmart
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
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...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Says Taxpayers Should No Longer Subsidize Walmart’s Starvation Wages
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
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...
Nearly 60% of Americans Support A $15/Hour Minimum Living Wage
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
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...
Biden moves swiftly to protect workers’ rights
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
Biden Aims to Replace Federal Auto Fleet With Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
Biden Calls for $15 Federal Minimum Wage With Pandemic Relief Package
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
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...
Trump Launches Last-Minute Attack on Social Security With Rule Aiming to Restrict Disability Benefits
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
Trump Rushes to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections
Six days after President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture notified food safety groups...
GAO report details how taxpayers subsidize corporate giants who pay low wages
Pinpointing a reality denounced as “morally obscene” by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a new government study shows how some of the...
Trump Administration Finalizing Last-Minute Safety Net Cuts
The American people have voted to kick President Donald Trump out of the White House, but in its waning weeks,...
Trump Freezes Wages of Farmworkers Following Election
ust days after U.S. voters went to the polls to help deny President Donald Trump another four years in the White House,...
Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them
One of the greatest side benefits of climate action is that it creates a lot of jobs. Not only that...
Anger grows at GOP over economic pain: ‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most’
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
