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NLRB Improves Back Pay Formula

NLRB National labor Relations Board
The NLRB on Tuesday said employers must compensate workers for "direct or foreseeable" financial harms, such as credit card debt and out-of-pocket medical expenses, that result from illegal firings and other unlawful labor practices.

Remembering Ralph Fasanella

Jonathan Kissam United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
UE Organizer and Painter of Working-Class Life and Struggle

The Road to Fascism

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate
Growing hardship is all but assured in 2023, and it will provide even more fertile ground for dangerous demagogues.

Bad Mother

Alexis Rhone Fancher American Journal of Poetry
The prolific LA poet Alexis Rhone Fancher offers a strong a poem of grief and the absence of legacy.

Inside Hakeem Jeffries’ Quiet Standoff With the Left

Ursula Perano and Sam Brody The Daily Beast
The tension at the heart of Jeffries’ relationship with the key progressive bloc of his party could shape how the newly minted leader approaches his task as the first new House Democratic leader in two decades.