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The minimum wage continues to be a powerful tool for fostering economic equity and ensuring a dignified standard of living for workers across the nation.

Current lawsuits could create a framework for suing fossil fuel companies over their role in the environmental crisis

Will 2024 be just a hangover from 2023?

"The global energy crisis has been a giant cash grab for fossil fuel firms," said one campaigner. "And instead of investing their record profits in clean energy, these companies are doubling down on oil, gas, and shareholder payouts."

Deadly Fire's Legacy (in 1904), Forgotten Respect for Radicals (1939), Big Money in Lies (1954), So Long, Subway Tokens (1994), Racism wins, then loses (1959), Innocent man freed after 22 years (1939), FBI Finds "Right Kind" of Black Leader (1964)

Human resources associations & union busting law firms keep close track of changes to labor & employment law. While mostly anti-union, these organizations are good sources of information like this list of laws going into effect in 2024.

The harsh reality is that the only way to get past this crisis for our democracy is to go through it. Our institutions were built to survive this, but only if we use them. Abdication, capitulation, surrender? That’s how we guarantee democracy loses.

In the popular imagination, vegan school lunch may seem like the exclusive provenance of big cities like New York, but the tide appears to have shifted significantly in much of the country.

The work of the new year must be to keep the orange fascist out of the White House. But there must a concomitant effort to inform, organize and persuade political leaders and the masses to address the national and planetary crisis.

By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it?