Courage Is Contagious: Fast Food Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages Nationwide Courage Is Contagious: Fast Food Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages Nationwide
Fast food and retail workers all across the country will strike on Thursday, August 29, to demand living wages.
Aug 28, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Arrested for Singing Arrested for Singing
Civil rights and labor activist David Newby is not done dissenting.
Aug 28, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
An Unfulfilled Dream From the March on Washington: Labor Rights for Domestic Work An Unfulfilled Dream From the March on Washington: Labor Rights for Domestic Work
Home care workers are still excluded from federal labor laws fifty years after protesters demanded inclusion.
Aug 26, 2013 / Blog / Bryce Covert
‘Timid Supplication for Justice Will Not Solve the Problem’ ‘Timid Supplication for Justice Will Not Solve the Problem’
Dr. Martin Luther King was talking about economic justice as well as racial justice, according to Senator Bernie Sanders.
Aug 24, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
This Week in Poverty: ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’ This Week in Poverty: ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’
Americans across the economic spectrum have a lot in common when it comes to stagnating wages.
Aug 23, 2013 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Fired Walmart Workers Arrested at Rally Announcing Labor Day Deadline Fired Walmart Workers Arrested at Rally Announcing Labor Day Deadline
Nine fired workers and one current one were arrested at the end of a rally at which they gave Walmart a deadline to raise wages and reinstate fired workers.
Aug 22, 2013 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
Americans Are Working Too Damn Hard Americans Are Working Too Damn Hard
We’ll march for jobs as well we should, but where do I line up for the march for leisure?
Aug 22, 2013 / Blog / Laura Flanders
Keeping a Massive Trade Deal Out of the Fast Lane Keeping a Massive Trade Deal Out of the Fast Lane
The Obama administration is pushing to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership without congressional oversight.
Aug 22, 2013 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
Is Detroit’s Bankruptcy Filing Unconstitutional? Is Detroit’s Bankruptcy Filing Unconstitutional?
Bond holders are at odds with municipal workers over who will bear the brunt of the city’s bankruptcy.
Aug 21, 2013 / Blog / Chris Hayes
An Interview With Bill de Blasio An Interview With Bill de Blasio
The New York City mayoral candidate talks labor issues, climate change, the NYPD and the legacy of A-Rod.
Aug 20, 2013 / Bhaskar Sunkara