Balentine is one of two Black workers who filed racial discrimination charges against Walmart this week, alleging that the company’s background check policies had a disparate impact on African Americans in the Elwood facility.
A recent survey released by the conference organizers found that 49 percent of game workers are actively pro-union, with only 16 percent currently not sympathetic
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel created a new unit in her office to investigate payroll and wage theft, following other dedicated enforcement units related to wrongful convictions and hate crimes since taking office in January.
The Fight for $15 was never just about raising wages, it was also about building public anger at a system where corporations make billions while workers are paid poverty wages. It is a return to labor's roots, the refusal to accept exploitation.
Governor Cuomo loves to enjoin us to think big about spending billions on infrastructure. He and Mayor de Blasio were prepared to commit $3 billion to Amazon. But no investment would repay New York more than a major investment in CUNY.
Nearly 5,000 full-time faculty and graduate employees at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, won a tentative agreement on the brink of a strike.
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