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Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goals. But across the country, states and companies have raised wages in the wake of Fight for $15’s efforts.

"Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have yet AGAIN failed working Americans by voting down seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers," lamented Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

12,000 striking postdoctoral scholars reached a tentative agreement with the University of California to boost their wages and benefits.

Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck?

"We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them."

Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute legislative push by Bernie Sanders and his allies today, railworkers may be getting the sick leave they’re demanding.

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

While recent films in the Black horror genre have presented the terrifying realities of being Black in America, Nanny is rooted in the specific experience of the African diaspora.

Twitter SNAFUs, and more reports from MSM and cyberworld