Labor
Alabama 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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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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Rep. Tim Ryan’s PRO Act speech goes viral: “Help the damn workers”
March 10, 2021Heaven forbid Congress do anything to help workers.
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PRO Act passes House, Senate Republicans plan to kill it
March 10, 2021Rep. 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.”
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Avalanche of progressive legislation on the move in the House
March 9, 2021Worker rights. The right to vote. Free and open elections. Controls on who can buy guns. And of course, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act.
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