Labor
Unions back Poor People’s Campaign, renew demand for Biden meeting
June 7, 2022“We no longer will accept a system built on workers’ backs while billionaires profit from the pandemic,” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry warned.
Read moreFirms claim to create 333K new jobs in May as jobless rate stays at 3.6 percent
June 6, 2022The “bounce back remains very strong, strikingly stronger—four years faster than the recovery from the Great Recession."
Read moreStrippers on strike in North Hollywood after mounting safety threats
June 6, 2022What started as a safety problem quickly escalated into a strike and employer lockout.
Read moreNew grass-roots union forms to organize Amazon warehouse in N.C.
June 3, 2022Amazon workers in North Carolina have created yet another independent union to organize at the warehouse giant.
Read moreOSHA gives giant coronavirus-spreading meatpacker, JBS, slap on the wrist
June 2, 2022The company was fined only $14,000 for exposing workers to the virus in seven plants.
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