The South's patrician political leadership still has contempt for the lower classes of "Lubberland"
Biden could kick-start labor organizing, without approval from Congress.
By excluding jobs held by black and brown workers from basic worker protections, the Fair Labor Standards Act, adopted decade ago during the New Deal, injected institutional racism into a federal wage and hour law.
The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil
Today it’s clear that on issue after issue, Sanders’ thunder on the left has carried the day among a majority of Americans, including substantial numbers of Republicans. Conservative attacks on Sanders-style proposals are increasingly falling flat.
The question is whether even a supportive president can reverse the decline in union power that economists say has helped hollow out America's middle class. Neither organized labor nor sympathetic politicians have managed to do that for decades.
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Every Republican senator and 8 Democrats voted against adding a $15 minimum wage to the pandemic relief package.
Prosecutors can and should take immediate steps to redirect efforts toward wage theft. This would give momentum to movements calling to redirect resources that now go to funding the police.
Gig economy companies were not true pioneers. The truth behind their dominance is their aggressive market takeovers, aided by their precarious labor model. The piece wage’s effect is to induce workers to toil longer and harder for less.
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