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...
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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...
‘Wage theft’: Millions of workers will earn less in 2021 under Trump’s payroll tax deferral
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump abandoned workers when they needed him the most
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
McConnell’s refusal to help states likely to hurt US economy and result in 4 million more job losses
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
Why the idea of jobless benefits scares the conservative mind
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
Hundreds Of McDonald’s Workers Strike Over Company’s Response To Coronavirus
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
Trump Vows To ‘Terminate Health Care’ Despite The Increase In COVID-19 Deaths
The GOP has nothing with which to replace Obamacare, but that does not concern Trump. He just wants to destroy...
Coal Industry Seeks Cuts to Payments for Miners With Black Lung Amid Pandemic
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
Trump Labor Secretary Condemned for Efforts to Roll Back Unemployment Benefits, Paid Leave
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
The Billionaires Putting Their Wealth Above Public Health Amid the Pandemic
While millions are facing health and financial uncertainty and unemployment rolls are reaching record levels due to the novel coronavirus...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Trump’s NLRB Moves to Make Unionizing ‘Nearly Impossible for Workers’
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
Inequality in the Trump economy just keeps getting worse
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
Robert Reich: The biggest business con of 2019 — fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
The Trump Administration Wants Restaurant Servers To Do More Work For Less Pay
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Whole Food Workers Saved World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos What He Makes in Less Than Six Hours
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
AFL-CIO Chief: Trump Has Opposed Every Increase in the Minimum Wage
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Trump’s Rust Belt Revival Fraud Is Killing Him In Wisconsin, Michigan, And Pennsylvania
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
Bernie Sanders Went To Walmart’s Shareholder Meeting To Demand A $15 Minimum Wage
Walmart’s shareholder meeting drew some star power on Wednesday, just not the kind the retailer was hoping for. Sen. Bernie...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wages
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday...
Bernie Sanders Demands That Walmart Raise Poverty Wages
Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is preparing to gatecrash Walmart’s annual meeting to demand the world’s biggest retailer...
Clean Tech Jobs Lead Employment Statistics In Twelve US States
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
US Clean Energy Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs Three to One
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
The gap between productivity and worker pay has increased dramatically since 1973
Most Americans believe that a rising tide should lift all boats—that as the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards....
University Of Delaware Sets Up Courses To Train Offshore Wind Professionals
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
Solar Panel Installer and Wind Turbine Tech Are Fastest Growing Occupations In US
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’ — and that should scare Trump: Robert Reich
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
How workers are winning $15 an hour: by acting like a union
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
Solar Power Jobs Program Developed To Provide Skills For At-Risk Youth
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
Major Victory for a Million Workers: Minimum Wage Increases Pass in Arkansas and Missouri
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Cleantech Creates Far More US Jobs Than Dirty Energy Does
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
Senator Bernie Sanders Congratulates Jeff Bezos For Taking His Advice
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) congratulated Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday for announcing he would raise wages to $15 per...
US Energy Efficiency Industry Employs Over Two Million People
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
Wells Fargo Ordered To Pay $97 Million For Violating Labor Laws
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
