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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
However, the administration’s response to the pandemic is in no way distinct from its approach to governing since President Trump’s first day on the job. The administration has systematically promoted [...]
Americans' support for unions is politically polarized, as it has been since 2001, when Gallup began tracking the measure annually. Democrats' current 83% approval of labor unions is the highest [...]
Amazon has historically been hostile to workers attempting to form a union or organize any kind of collective action. Last year, an Amazon spokesperson accused unions of exploiting Prime Day [...]
"Despite calls to “reopen America” and resume some normal economic activity, coronavirus is still spreading widely across the U.S.. But some governors are reopening regardless of the public health risk, [...]