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GOP States Spurn Unemployment Funding to Force Workers Back Into Low-Paying Jobs
The GOP's actions could leave the country with vastly different employment social safety nets for red and blue states.
Amazon Brings Its Shady Anti-Union Tactics to Staten Island Unionization Effort
The company is repurposing the tactics from its union-busting effort in Alabama -- and adding some new ones.
McDonald’s “Wage Increase” Won’t Affect 95 Percent of Its Franchise Employees
The company is bragging about small wage raises at only 5 percent of its locations ahead of a planned strike next week.
Connecticut Calls in National Guard as Nursing Home Workers Plan Strike
The state has refused to meet workers’ demands for better pay and lower patient-to-staff ratios.
Sanders Blames “Rigged Economy” for CEO Pay Hikes Amid Worker Pay Cuts in 2020
At the 51 S&P 500 companies with the lowest median wage, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was a whopping 830 to 1.
We Can’t Just Tell People to “Go Back to Work.” We Have to Improve Workplaces.
After this past year, people want work to be more than a dreary ordeal of basic survival at an unsustainable wage.
Despite Weeks of Union-Busting, Workers at Imperfect Foods Vote to Unionize
Companies like Imperfect Foods hold great sustainability potential, but that must not come at the expense of workers.
Progressives to Corporations: If You Want to Keep Workers, Pay Living Wages
Corporations fault unemployment benefits for labor shortages, but critics argue “starvation wages” are to blame.
Less-Educated Workers Were Hardest Hit in Recession. That Hasn’t Changed.
Unemployment due to voluntary quits is still extraordinarily low.
No Worker Shortage: Report Finds Low Wages Make Food Workers Want to Quit
Food worker scarcity “is not a labor shortage problem; it’s a wage shortage problem,” said the head of One Fair Wage.