workers rights
Sanders, citing her anti-worker stand, is sole senator vs. Pritzker
June 27, 2013Hyatt fired housekeepers, replacing them with out-of-state minimum-wage temps. Unite Here has called a boycott of Hyatt.
Read moreToday in labor history: Activist Agnes Nestor born
June 24, 2013On June 24, 1880, labor and women's rights activist Agnes Nestor was born in Grand Rapids, Mich. She moved to Chicago in 1897 and started working at the age of 14 in the glove industry
Read moreGOP votes to prevent “dreamers” from getting a break
June 18, 2013On June 13, the House of Representatives voted on a mostly partisan line to prevent the Obama administration from giving undocumented immigrants brought here as children a break.
Read moreHearings held on ‘right-to-work’ in Ohio
June 17, 2013The Manufacturing & Workforce Development Committee of the Ohio legislature, unanimously voted to table three so-called 'right-to-work' bills.
Read moreInequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
June 11, 2013Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
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