Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.
Deporting immigrants will lead to job loss for immigrants - but as Ben Zipperer shows in work for the Economic Policy Institute, almost as many native-born workers could lose their jobs as deported immigrants as industries contract.
The longtime farm labor activist gets candid about the fallout from Trump’s deportation efforts.
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.
Three programs that train occupational health experts and study worker safety for the state’s most dangerous jobs face an uncertain future.
“This is truly a struggle between Wall Street and Main Street. It’s as simple as that,” APWU President Dimondstein said. “Wells Fargo is Wall Street. Wells Fargo wants to steal what belongs to the people of the country."
As Trump moves to strip over 1 million immigrants of legal status, factories grapple with slowdowns, say employees.
The ferocity & scale of onrushing authoritarianism demand that we think beyond binaries. We can’t counterpose electoral & strike action: we need to do both. And we can’t decisively defeat MAGA without effectively challenging the neoliberal model.
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