The Time is Now – Pass the PROAct!
When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in 1935, the workers in the United States were facing a lot of the same strife and struggle that workers today [...]
Workers Don’t Want a Handout – They Want Respect!
The world has spent the last fifteen months waging war against a pandemic, a battle that is still raging in many parts of the globe. Millions of people lost their [...]
The Massive Crime of Wage Theft
The largest growth sector over the last ten years has not been in technology, transportation, or communications. Unfortunately, the largest growth sector we have seen in the U.S. has been [...]
Protecting Workers and Putting Safety First
Safety on the job has been one of the longest and hardest fought battles of the American worker. In 1970, Congress took an enormous leap towards making safety on the [...]
Putting People First – New Department of Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh
On January 7th, President Biden announced the last of his cabinet. Included in that list was Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh to be the Secretary of the Department of Labor – [...]
He Asked His Team How to Avoid Layoffs. Their Response Thrilled Him.
“Businesses love to talk about caring for people, but the conventional wisdom is, what really matters in these situations is your balance sheet,” Dan Price says. “Leaders will do layoffs [...]
COVID-19 Has Exposed the Gross Exploitation of Meatpacking Workers
“Not only were they not advising the workers of the risk of COVID exposure at their facility, but they also didn’t follow the CDC guidelines when COVID first hit,” Cordova [...]
Keeping Up the Fight
With states certifying their final votes from the November 3 election, what, if anything, was achieved for workers in this country? Was the needle moved in our favor, or was [...]
How Amazon keeps a close eye on employee activism to head off unions
“Amazon controls everything from bathroom breaks to communication with other employees,” Kochan said. “If a union comes in, they’re going to lose some of that control and that’s ultimately what [...]
Amy Coney Barrett Is the Least Experienced Supreme Court Nominee in 30 years
“How did she go from really good law professor to the short list?” asks Angie Maxwell, a political science professor at the University of Arkansas who studies conservative politics and [...]