The administration is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.
“People are at very great risk of dying on the job already,” Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO union’s occupational safety and health director, said. “This is something that is only going to make the problem worse.”
Carter's work post-presidency brokering peace and monitoring overseas elections for fairness earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. But when he occupied the White House, Carter was a disappointment to American working people and their labor movement.
If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.
What was once a fringe legal theory now stands a real chance of being adopted by the Supreme Court.
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union. Every officer comes from the ranks of working flight attendants, there is no gap between the lived experience of the rank and file and union leadership.
Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.
Our society values health care and education in theory, but it constantly undermines them in practice. Public sector workers feel that discrepancy most acutely. They’re striking to force our society to put its money where its mouth is.
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