The general strike was the first time coordinated labor efforts shut down a U.S. city the size of San Francisco.
British filmmaker Ken Loach's latest work, "Sorry We Missed You," shows the brutal reality of life for a package delivery driver working as independent contractor and home healthcare worker. This must-see film is now playing in the US.
Unions that believe that their only job is to deliver at contract time and then disappear are those that can be easily undermined and overwhelmed by savvy management.
The 60-year descent that led to Gary Jones' indictment.
Unlike all the other union-backed politicians who've run for president since the mid-1970s, Bernie Sanders was a labor solidarity activist long before he was elected to anything.
The contracting trend has transformed corporate America into a two-tier economic system of company employees with secure jobs and good benefits and contracted workers with poor benefits who lack job security.
Containing the spread of virus requires people to stay home when they are sick. But the US remains one of the only high-income countries without federal paid sick leave. It is time for stronger public policy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders supports registered nurses in North Carolina as they work to make the union at Mission Health-HCA with National Nurses United.
Termination letters were sent to those students protesting for a cost-of-living adjustment amid California’s housing crisis
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