Wages

Trump using record unemployment to push an anti-labor agenda

May 28, 2020 By Bruce Bostick

This is a brazen attempt by Trump, McConnell, GOP and corporations to break our backs, wipe out the most basic of all working people’s rights. We won’t stand for it.

Players to MLB: “Sliding pay, no way.”

May 27, 2020 By Al Neal

There is still a little over a month before the proposed July restart will come into question, and there is plenty of time, and room, to see if any good-faith, player-approved deal will come to fruition.

DeLauro: ‘Woman workers on frontlines’ of coronavirus battle still shorted in pay

April 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Low-paid workers are disproportionately women of color, and for them, they will need to work several more months to make what a white, non-Hispanic man earned last year.

NFL players begrudgingly approve new union contract

March 16, 2020 By Al Neal

With a new CBA in place, the NFL will now move to negotiate lucrative deals with broadcasting partners, with the intent of growing their slice of the revenue pie.

UN: Rising worldwide income inequality produces political turmoil

February 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Income inequality is increasing worldwide and within specific nations, and that’s producing political turmoil, too, a recent United Nations report says.