Month: February 2021

“When you sign up,” writes Harold Meyerson in The American Prospect, “with your phone carrier … the fine print of the contract reads that if you have a grievance against that company, you must waive your right to go to court and

A longtime union leader, Corean Holloway works as a laundry attendant at the Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. She canvassed her city full time to get out the vote for Biden-Harris during the general election for president.

House Democrats are preparing to stitch together a legislative version of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal next week, which will include an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour despite a second Senate

The head of the Center for Independent Employees is paid $3,200 per day to thwart what could become Amazon’s first unionized facility in the US. The Seattle-based conglomerate recently retained a consultant named Russell Brown to

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the nation last March, many large food retailers increased their frontline workers’ pay by several dollars an hour. Dubbed ‘hero pay,’ the programs have since ended, despite the remaining dangers

International Rights Advocates, a human rights group, said it filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday on behalf of eight Malian citizens against chocolate companies for alleged complicity in trafficking and forced labor. The plaintiffs