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Sanders’s Bill to Expand Workplace Democracy Passes Senate in Omnibus
The Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge (WORK) Act aims to help create and expand employee ownership centers.
![People gather together to ask the McDonald’s corporation to raise workers wages to a $15 minimum wage as well as demanding the right to a union on May 23, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1151237682-400x300.jpg)
Corporations Claiming to Love Black Lives Fight Against Living Wages and Unions
These companies have fiercely opposed wage increases and workplace organizing that would empower Black workers.
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McDonald’s Workers in Detroit Are on Strike for Workplace Democracy
The action was ignited by the hideously common experience of workplace sexual harassment.
![Workers and supporters picket outside the Sheraton Boston by Marriott in Boston on October 3, 2018. Building the world anew under a new social order is the hardheaded realism the working class must face.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/2018_1223-workers-400x300.jpg)
Can the Working Class Change the World?
Building the world anew under a new social order is the hardheaded realism the working class must face.
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Is Worker Ownership a Way Forward for Market Basket?
Market Basket seems a prime candidate for transition to employee ownership that can keep the leadership that built the company's culture in place.
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Workplace Democracy
We need a whole new approach to labor law in the United States that provides workers more freedom and democracy in the workplace.
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Richard Wolff: Enterprise Structure Is Key to the Shape of a Post-Capitalist Future
Richard Wolff discusses his conviction that making the transition from capitalism to socialism requires a deliberate critique of workplace organization.
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New Cuba: Beachhead for Economic Democracy Beyond Capitalism
Help bust the myth that markets mean capitalism for the new Cuba by sharing this article.
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The Corporatocracy vs. Workplace Democracy
Plain and simple, the mechanisms by which we the people can control our democracy are being destroyed one-by-one.
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Work Sucks: How the Movie “Office Space” Proves Radicalism Lives in the Mainstream
Few films in recent decades have so successfully spoken to the day-to-day realities of service sector employment as 1999's