Labor
Bill to save multi-employer pensions not enough for sick miners
July 26, 2019“Working men and women whose retirement income security is at risk have not forgotten the 2008 record-setting federal rescue of Wall Street. Multiemployer pension plan participants and retirees are no less worthy than the financial services...
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Soul of a union man—Leo Gerard recalls 54 years in the movement
July 25, 2019Employers have to learn that taking on workers at one factory means taking on workers at all of their workplaces internationally.
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‘One job should be enough’—Airline food workers take their struggle public
July 24, 2019“We feed the world, but our kids go hungry."
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Short staffing, security problems force Univ. of Chicago nurses onto info picket line
July 23, 2019Conditions are bad enough that NNU filed a formal complaint with state health and occupational safety officials earlier this year.
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In Philippines’ banana plantations: Children working in the trees, parents on strike
July 22, 2019From the archives of social movement photographer David Bacon: The banana plantations of Mindanao, Philippines.
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