Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Smacks Down Anti-Union ‘Right To Exploit’ Bill With His Veto Pen
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 10, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 22, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
by onepercenttakers · Published February 25, 2015 · Last modified November 19, 2015
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 29, 2014 · Last modified November 21, 2015
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 23, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 2, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 22, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 18, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 8, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 5, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 4, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 29, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
In an expected show of solidarity with postal employee unions, the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers will vote Saturday...
Walmart is known for resisting efforts to unionize its American workforce. But in Canada, one of its stores actually voted...
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
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by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.