Long Beach California’s City Council is poised to order big changes for one of the city’s most significant industries, with a proposal to change work rules at major hotels scheduled to come up for debate Tuesday. […]
Forty years ago, on September 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along Ohio’s Mahoning River before the early shift. In the next hour their lives would change forever. […]
Just a day after Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2017, President Donald Trump—who strongly supported the Republican Party’s plan to strip health insurance from tens of millions of Americans—took aim at […]
In its nearly six-month battle with striking workers, Charter Communications has been fighting one union. On Monday, it will be confronted by dozens more. Fed up by the grinding contract dispute that’s brought some of the strikers to the brink of […]
Weingarten rights allow employees to request representation during an employer’s investigatory interview that the employee reasonably believes could lead to disciplinary action. The Board’s position on whether employees in non-unionized […]
The gender pay gap shows that when it comes to wages, the opportunity for women to earn a good life is stunted. New Census data released this week found that women working full-time made $41,554 in 2016, compared to $51,640 for men. […]
The state Supreme Court has dissolved a preliminary injunction that favored labor unions regarding West Virginia’s right to work legislation, clearing the way for it to become law. Justice Menis Ketchum authored the majority opinion, which was issued […]
Since January, government agencies under the Donald Trump administration have taken steps to hide information from the public — information that was previously posted and information that the public has a right to know. […]
“In the mid-1980s, I began investigating why the 13 original Confederate states (whose standard of living was uniformly poor) remain so stubbornly and vehemently anti-union,” writes David Macaray in Counterpunch. “Given the undeniable […]
Three women who worked at Google are suing the company over its salary practices, accusing the search giant of discriminating against its female employees by systematically paying them less than men who do similar jobs. […]
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