Labor
Biden to workers: ‘Wall Street didn’t build this country. You did.’
September 8, 2020Also on Labor Day, Democratic V.P. candidate Kamala Harris meets with Wisconsin workers and family of Jacob Blake.
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Harvard law experts: Coronavirus presents dangers, opportunities for new worker power
September 8, 2020While traditional labor organizing is extremely difficult, inclusion of more-essential-than-ever workers can help grow the labor movement.
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By a thousand cuts, Trump trying to exterminate unions
September 4, 2020Even as the coronavirus pandemic makes them more urgent, Trump is dismantling protection on the job by weakening the NLRB.
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1 of every 5 U.S. workers on jobless benefits, millions likely uncounted
September 3, 2020Who’s getting the aid during the coronavirus-caused depression, and for how long, is highly politicized.
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Starting over in fast food: Cathy Sherwin
September 2, 2020“Bosses are bosses wherever you go, and they always have subtle ways of trying to get as much out of you as possible," Cathy says.
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