Category: Labor
NLRB moves to make unionizing more difficult while COVID-19 ravages workers
‘Nearly Impossible for Workers’ “The Trump NLRB takes this moment to publish a rule that will make it harder both for workers to unionize and to keep unions they have. Shameful does not even begin to…
Amazon, Whole Foods workers walk off job to protest “unjust and unsafe” labor practices
‘The Strike Wave Is in Full Swing’ “One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” by Julia Conley, staff writer Labor rights advocates on Monday urged…
Workers virus rights for big companies
Pearl River The stimulus bill overs some expanded rights for workers at companies with under 500 workers. What do you do if your employer has over 500 workers and is refusing to do the right things…
Paying for coronavirus and medical debt
by Wade Rathke Pearl River Ten percent of Americans have absolutely, flat-to-the-bone, no health insurance. Many others have Trump-plan insurance with high deductibles, covering nothing much at all, but maybe catastrophes up to certain lifetime…
The Senate corporate bailout package is a ‘robbery in progress,’ warn critics
“It’s not a bailout for the coronavirus. It’s a bailout for twelve years of corporate irresponsibility.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer As details of the Senate’s coronavirus stimulus plan slowly trickled in Wednesday, progressive critics characterized…
#NotDying4WallStreet goes viral as progressives reject efforts to put corporate profits over public health
“We will not die for oligarchs’ quarterly profit margin.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer As President Donald Trump and business elites suggest the U.S. public should go back to work in the midst of the worsening…
Virus exposes gig economy for predatory business model it promoted
By Wade Rathke New Orleans A lot of Silicon Valley are self-isolating in what should be shame as their app-based, platform capitalism, or whatever they wanted to call it, is exposed as little more than…
Jeff Bezos, Whole Foods wants workers to pay for colleagues’ sick leave during coronavirus pandemic
“Absolute bullshit. With the amount Jeff Bezos makes in one day, he could shut stores down and pay employees to stay safe.” by Jon Queally, staff writer When progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders say “now…
Erik Prince recruited ex-spies to help Project Veritas infiltrate groups ‘hostile’ to Trump agenda
“They didn’t succeed in their attempt to hurt our union,” said American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, “but note what the right wing will do to try to eliminate workers’ voice.” By Jessica Corbett,…
Coronavirus policy and financial failures put nursing home workers at risk
New Orleans Is the coronavirus a pandemic and economic catastrophe or a hiccup along the road to progress as the President promises? Who knows? What already seems clear is that for all of the talk…
Louisiana case study of delivery app scams
New Orleans A funny thing happened to platform capitalism and its predatory business model in Louisiana of all places making the experience there a case in point. Being Louisiana, the fact that somehow booze triggered the…
Coronavirus: A simple way to keep workers – and the economy – from getting sick
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University The COVID-19 outbreak appears headed for the U.S., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging Americans to prepare now, such as by stocking up on food and prescription…
Trump revokes bargaining for Federal workers and civilian unions. Cites “emergency”
By Meteor Staff Feb 21, 2020 President Donald Trump has officially granted the Department of Defense the legal authority to abolish the collective bargaining rights of its civilian labor unions representing some 750,000 workers. Gutting…
Weingarten Rights, the MLBPA, and the Houston Astros
New Orleans We don’t have a major league baseball team in New Orleans. Our closest team is a bit more than five hours away in Houston. In the vast majority of the last several decades,…
Over 60 green groups call on House Dems to pass sweeping worker rights-boosting PRO Act
“There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions.” By Andrea Germanos, staff writer, CommonDreams.org Over 60 environmental groups on Wednesday urged Democratic lawmakers to support the sweeping pro-union…
New report offers blueprint for a ‘Clean Slate’ for workers to fight economic inequality and strengthen labor unions
“Democracy at work should be a right, not a fight.” To effectively combat economic inequality and even the playing field between corporations and the people they employ, a new report argues, the U.S. must entirely overhaul…
