worker rights
Will COVID-19 become a modern-day Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and spark reform?
May 20, 2020The story of Triangle is one of worker power and union struggles, of organizing and movements that made a tragedy a catalyst, not just a headline. Can it happen again?
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Corporations using coronavirus excuse to get permanent immunity from workers’ lawsuits
May 20, 2020The business scheme also includes routing the few lawsuits against the worst wrongdoers away from state courts and into federal courts packed with anti-worker Trump-named judges.
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Uber, Lyft drivers keep up the pressure: ‘We are employees, not contractors’
May 13, 2020Labor researchers calculate the two companies together owe more than $400 to California's state unemployment system.
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Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments
May 11, 2020Trumka proposed the federal government guarantee paid employment – by actually shelling out the money – for all workers.
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Day of action today to push Essential Workers Bill of Rights
May 7, 2020The point is “to rise up in solidarity with essential workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis."
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