Labor

Maine Medical Center nurses want a union, need support

March 16, 2021 By Sheila Malone RN

University of Southern Maine economics professor Michael Hillard said recently that the union-organizing campaign occurs at a crucial time.

San Francisco: $5/hour COVID hazard pay for grocery, pharmacy workers

March 12, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Late last month, a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll found 77% of Californians support hazard pay legislation for frontline essential workers.

Kroger closes grocery stores to avoid COVID hazard pay for workers

March 11, 2021 By Special to People’s World

One of the most profitable corporations in the United States is threatening grocery workers’ jobs in response to a new coronavirus-era hazard pay requirement.

Rep. Tim Ryan’s PRO Act speech goes viral: “Help the damn workers”

March 10, 2021 By Berry Craig

Heaven forbid Congress do anything to help workers.

PRO Act passes House, Senate Republicans plan to kill it

March 10, 2021 By PAI

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., declared: “This bill seeks to empower workers who build our country—and who are being oppressed within this plantation capitalist system.”