The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed 175 new cases of COVID-19 and just five new deaths on Monday. Those figures are strikingly similar to Sunday’s, when 174 new cases were confirmed, along with four deaths. […]
“It should tell you something about who US public policy honors and respects,” writes Prem Thakker in The American Prospect, “that the Protecting America’s Workers Act, a bill that would simply expand the workplaces covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, oblige employers […]
General Internet searching is not enough. Companies manipulate what shows up first on a general Internet search. Often you have to weed through hundreds of pages of marginal information before you get to real substantive information on […]
“This wasn’t your average picket line,” writes Paul Prescod in Jacobin. “’It’s up to Walt to call the halt,’ read a striking worker’s picket sign beside a picture of Mickey Mouse. Another featured an image of Pinocchio saying, ‘There are no strings on me.’ […]
“In the US about 12 percent of workers are unionized, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” writes Eriq Gardner in The Hollywood Reporter. “In Hollywood, it’s nearly everyone, even though workers largely operate on a project basis […]
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic created record losses in the second quarter of 2020—and claimed the lives and livelihoods of millions of workers—median CEO pay in the US increased yet again last year, according to a new analysis. […]
Kyla Hsia is a senior digital strategist at AFL-CIO and a member of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. She recently joined the AFL-CIO team after sitting at the bargaining table for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s […]
The union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s chorus staved off calls for a 30-percent reduction in payroll costs that the company had said it needed to survive the pandemic. But the contract it tentatively agreed to will save the Met millions […]
“A consistent theme of the postmortems on the failed union drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama,” write Alex Hanand Adam Ryan in The Nation, “is that the organizers just weren’t ready to take on the tech behemoth. […]
Unions that represent healthcare professionals and essential frontline workers are speaking out about the CDC’s walkback on masks. These workers, they say, have paid for and will continue to pay for the nation’s scandalous lack of preparation for […]
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