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...
Category: Workers
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...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
Study Finds That Average CEO-To-Worker Pay Gap Has Now Reached 339 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
Uber And Lyft Drivers’ Median Hourly Wage Is Just $3.37, Report Finds
Uber and Lyft drivers in the US make a median profit of $3.37 per hour before taxes, according to a...
Fight For $15 Movement Plans Fast-Food Workers’ Strike Across South
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied.
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
Activists Target Reactionary Midwest Politicians Opposing Wage Increases
U.S. activists plan protests in up to 400 cities across the United States on Monday’s Labor Day holiday to demand...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
The Jobs That Trump Thanked Ford For Saving Are Now Moving To China
President Trump took credit for pushing the auto companies around to force them to keep jobs in the U.S., which...
White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs
The White House’s real position on bringing back coal jobs was revealed after Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn made it...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying...
Reality Check: Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
President Trump has promised to revive the coal industry and double down on fossil fuels, creating “so many energy jobs,”...
Senate Republicans Vote To Take Retirement Accounts Away From Low Income Workers
By a 50-49 vote, Senate Republicans have rolled back an Obama-era regulation that allowed states to create retirement accounts for...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds St. Louis’ $11 Minimum Wage
The Missouri Supreme Court gave low-wage workers in St. Louis a raise on Tuesday. The five-judge panel issued a ruling...
Trump Shows His Contempt for the Working Class by Nominating Puzder
If Donald Trump truly cared about working Americans, as he claimed during his campaign, he never would have nominated a...
Solar & Wind Jobs Growing 12x Faster Than US Economy But Crazy Donald Wants To Kill Them
Would you rather be a coal miner or a solar power technician? Bad news if you answered (correctly) that life...
Corporate Elite Fights To Repeal Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes
Areas all over the country approved minimum wage hikes during this year’s elections, and corporations are not happy about it....
Trump-Supporting Coal Miners Now Afraid He’ll Take Away Their Healthcare
Be careful what you wish for. That’s the message that coal workers in the United States should have listened to...
Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Is Declaration Of War On America’s Workers
Donald Trump’s pick as Labor Secretary telegraphs his plan to use the Executive Branch of the government to declare war...
Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump ‘Has Endangered’ U.S. Jobs With Carrier Deal
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not impressed by President-elect Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier Corp. to keep roughly...
Voters will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to raise the minimum wage
Voters, “tired of waiting” for federal lawmakers, will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to...
For Republicans It’s “Anti-Labor Day”
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
Coal Company CEOs Took Huge Raises While Killing Jobs
One of the defining traits of conservatives, particularly wealthy conservatives, is embracing any policy that enriches the already wealthy at...
Evidence Shows That Raising Restaurant Workers’ Wages Doesn’t Cause Job Loss
Low-income workers rallied across the country to turn the minimum wage into a livable one in 2015. As servers and...
Obama’s Executive Action Insures That 5 Million Workers Will Get A Raise In 2016
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that directed the Labor Department to chance the rules for overtime pay....
Tyson Foods: Carving Up Workers’ Comp
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
Evidence That Many Poor People Are Among The Hardest Workers
Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But on...
How Union Buster Walmart Spies On Its Massive Workforce
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized...
Hillary Clinton addresses Fight for 15 protesters: “Your advocacy is changing our country for the better.”
Fast-food strikers got a boost to their campaign on Tuesday morning, when Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton personally tweeted out...
Hillary Clinton Calls for Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $12 Per Hour
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa that she would like to...
Bernie Sanders Walks Verizon Picket Line
In a rare move for a major presidential candidate, Democratic hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined a picket line with...
Right-Winger Paul Ryan Demands Family Time For Himself, But Opposes Family Leave For American Workers
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually...
Florida Legislators Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ and Fail
A group of 20 Florida Democrats took the “Minimum Wage Challenge” and attempted to live on the state’s minimum wage...
Obama Slams Republicans For Assaulting The Middle Class With Their Attacks On Unions
President Obama is hosting the first-ever White House Summit on Worker Voice today, during which he condemned the “culture of...
Democratic Governor Cuomo Proposes State-Wide $15 Minimum Wage
On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will become the first governor to call for a $15 minimum wage...
Workers Score Another Victory As $15 Minimum Wage Advances In New York
There aren’t a lot of obscure government board meetings that warrant a watch party, let alone one with a marching...
Jeb Bush Cracks the Whip: Says Americans Aren’t Working Hard Enough
Hopefully working Americans are listening to Jeb Bush on the campaign trail. If they are, they should quickly recognize that...
Republicans Favor Preserving a Tax Loophole for Billionaires Over Creating 1 Million New Jobs for Young People
Senate Republicans voted down a bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have provided funds to state and local governments...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Thinks American Workers are Spoiled: For Walker $7.25 an Hour is a Living Wage
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the new state budget into law on Sunday with a last-minute change that strips...
Millionaire Jeb Bush Decides That Americans Need To Work Longer Before They Can Retire
Slacker Alert: Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled...
America will die old and broke: The right-wing plan to ransack the middle-class nest egg
Through a quirk in state term limits combined with a terrible midterm election, the Nevada legislature has been taken over...
‘Fight for 15’ protest shuts down McDonald’s HQ
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
