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.”
A wave of shoplifting crimes are attracting front-page news, while the $15 billion stolen by corporations from workers receives no coverage at all
Workers at three plants owned by the luxury apparel-maker Canada Goose in Winnipeg, Manitoba, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
The pandemic has shown us how antiquated our leave policies are and how dearly they have cost us.
Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.
Our research, drawing on interviews with nursing aides and emerging studies of other essential workers during COVID-19, shows how employee policies, particularly for low-paid aides, have sharply raised the risks...
As the coronavirus has shuttered swaths of America’s offices, many workers in corporate call centers say they are still expected to work, risking their own health.
This book is a must-needed introduction to the rising international labor movement against the neoliberal wage and labor regime.
Where should labor unions be? Labor unions should be where the workers are, and where the money is.
When we stereotype or lazily assume low-wage workers to be “low skill,” it reinforces an often unspoken and pernicious view that they lack intelligence and ambition, maybe even the potential to master “higher-order” skilled work.
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