Labor
Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
Read more30 million jobs lost so far, but many workers can’t access unemployment benefits
May 4, 2020The Economic Policy Institute says the real number is even higher.
Read moreMay Day photo essay: The Faces of Labor
April 30, 2020These are the faces of American workers - on the job in the middle of a health crisis.
Read morePostal Workers’ Dimondstein: USPS collapse would disenfranchise tens of millions
April 30, 2020Voting by mail is a longtime cause of both the nation’s postal unions, but it’s even more urgent in the time of a coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreMay Day strike at Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, Target, Instacart, Whole Foods!
April 30, 2020An unprecedented coalition of essential workers fights for life in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, walking off the job from coast to coast in the largest U.S. job action in decades.
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