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It’s Time to Draw a Line in the Sand
Workers in this country have taken it on the chin repeatedly over the last 40 years. President Ronald Reagan began the silent war against workers amid loud attacks on Unions. [...]
The Election of a Lifetime
While Unions have reached a new high in favorability in the United States, they are still battling uphill against a mountain of money from big business and elected officials that [...]
The Importance of Prevailing Wage
With record unemployment and the growing need for safety on the job, it is unfathomable that governors, legislatures and the Trump administration would look to weaken Davis-Bacon standards, better known [...]
With Trump donor in charge, Postal Service may shut locations and cut service before Election Day
"It's just asinine to think that you can shut something down or throttle it back in terms of the pandemic when basically the lifeline for voting and democracy is going [...]
Strength in Unity
The slogans of court packing and corruption are the same slogans Trump and his brethren used four years ago to distract us from moving ahead. The slogans are meant to [...]
“Trumpcare” Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for “Garbage” Health Insurance.
“The marketing is extremely deceptive,” said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “Both the advertising and the brokers use terms that to the [...]
The Productivity–Pay Gap
From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 108.1 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means [...]
Workers Under Fire
Businesses, contractors, even our local, state and federal governments have been taking advantage of workers in the United States for decades. From low wages, to discrimination, to unsafe working conditions, to the simple mindset of always putting profits over people, in increasing and alarming ways employers have shown that they view their employees as expendable liabilities rather than responsible, skilled, and hard-working people worthy of their respect.