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The Just Transition for Coal Workers Can Start Now. Colorado Is Showing How.
Colorado will use some of the millions of dollars in savings from securitization to invest back in workers.
We Need a People’s Globalization to Defeat Global Neoliberalism
Global free trade hurts working people, but global unions can empower them.
The “Aging Crisis” Is Actually Just a Labor Crisis for the Wealthy
A smaller labor market means fewer people willing to take on low-paying jobs.
The Media Uses Coal Miners to Attack the Green New Deal While Ignoring Pensions
Major media outlets remain stuck in a reductive “elite vs. blue-collar” divide.
The Financial Industry Preys on 401(k) Fees. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.
Without change, we can expect a serious decline in retiree living standards.
Suicide as Corporate Murder: France Télécom on Trial
At France Télécom, worker suicides were not an aberration of the system, but the deliberate outcome.
Capitalist Workplaces Set Bosses Up to Be Authoritarian Tyrants
“Free markets” do not guarantee workers any freedoms other than the freedom to be unemployed and to starve.
How the Media Misrepresents the Debate Over the Green New Deal
There’s more to the story than “environmentalists versus blue-collar workers.”
Time for a Raise for New York Car Wash Workers
The state legislature could end the subminimum tipped wage for carwashers.
How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned to Work Together in New York
A bill in the works since 2016 has brought together climate activists and unions for radical climate action in New York.