Labor
Equal Pay Day used to push legislation against pay discrimination
March 25, 2021Calls go out for wide-ranging and hard-hitting laws to halt the paying of inferior wages to the nation’s women.
Read moreRev. Barber to Alabama union backers: ‘Bessemer is the new Selma’
March 24, 2021Civil rights leader brings the Poor People’s Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing 5,805 workers at Amazon’s giant shipping warehouse.
Read moreSenate OKs Laborers member, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as Biden’s Labor Secretary
March 23, 2021The vote was 68-29 with all the “no” votes coming from Republicans.
Read moreBiden appointees moving fast to reverse Trump’s anti-worker moves
March 23, 2021For the first time in a long time, real inspectors are on their way to high-hazard workplaces including hospitals and meat and poultry processing plants.
Read moreAlabama Amazon worker testifies before Congress: “We’re not robots.”
March 18, 2021Amazon worker Jennifer Bates brought the details to a March 17 Senate Budget Committee hearing on the growing chasm between the rich and the rest of us.
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