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More than 8,000 workers at Kroger-owned King Soopers and City Market stores are on strike in Colorado. Their fight highlights the company’s long history of atrocious treatment of its workforce.
NYC teachers and nurses shine a light on the state of schools and hospitals as we near two years of the pandemic. Can workplace organizing stave off collapse and win a transformative political agenda?
One hundred and forty million Americans are poor or low-income in the richest nation in the history of the world. The steady growth of America’s GDP has not, in fact, been “good news for all people.”
Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.
We upended our lives during the pandemic, but our response to what we know is happening to the planet has remained business-as-usual.
“The essential worker term is just lip service; that’s not how we’re being treated by this economy or the people who benefit from food coming from workers in this country."
“The ‘pay your dues’ concept is a trap.” At a first job, it’s almost a cultural expectation that you’ll be underpaid, harassed, or exploited in some way.
The industry bemoans benefits, but workers don’t want jobs where pay is low and risks high, say Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, and author Mark Bittman.
The men and women who went to work and war during World War II were backed by a care economy. We need one too. What are the basic facilities necessary to enable our society to function? And then let’s fund the answer.
Many social scientific analyses of the global political economy...are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. If they do address... colonialism, they ignore embedded racial logics of oppression.
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