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How Workers Are Defying Republican Officials in the South

March 5, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By David McCall Tanya Gaines and her co-workers launched a union drive in 2014 because it was the only way to win livable wages, fair treatment, and safe working conditions at the Golden Dragon copper tube manufacturing plant in Pine Hill, Alabama, one of the state’s poorest areas. Workers […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, Union

Why Workers and Employers Both Need Paid Family Leave

February 3, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Mike Morales’s doctor advised him to take four weeks off for an important procedure, and the longtime crane operator readily agreed, secure in the knowledge that he wouldn’t lose a dime in pay or face other repercussions at work.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, maternal

Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism, by Richard D. Wolff

October 27, 2023 By Richard Wolff

COVID-19 destroyed the old economy. The news economy may be scary to many workers

Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Socialism is capitalism’s critical shadow. When lights shift, a shadow may seem to disappear, but sooner or later, with further shifts of light, it comes back. Capitalism’s ideologues have long fantasized that capitalism would finally outwit, outperform, and thereby overcome socialism: make the shadow vanish permanently. Like children, they […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia/China, economy, History, Labor, Opinion, Politics

How California’s Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour

October 16, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

How California’s Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour

More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their bosses, but as a result of a hard-won labor victory. Governor Gavin Newsom on September 28 signed AB 1228 into law; its title says it all: “Fast Food Council: health, safety, employment, and minimum wage.”

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor

The Deadly Intersection of Labor Exploitation and Climate Change: By Sonali Kolhatkar

August 18, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

Outlets Denounced as ‘Enemies of People’ Still Promote Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Narratives

As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to be delivered to us.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Climate Change, Labor, Sonali

Five Critical Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers

August 2, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

crop man taping carrying box with scotch

Narrowly avoiding, for now, what might have been the largest strike in United States history of workers employed by a single corporation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to a tentative agreement

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Labor, Sonali Kolhatkar, Union

Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price

August 2, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Sonali Kolhatkar Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with the […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Hollywood, Labor, Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Workers Demand Julie Su’s Confirmation as Labor Secretary

July 9, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

European Union Parliament Member ridicules our democracy: 'The US couldn't spell democracy'

Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Tom Conway It wasn’t enough for owners of lucrative Southern California car washes to cheat their workers out of wages and overtime. They made workers pay for the towels they used to clean cars, denied them rest breaks, forced them to toil in filthy water that bred foot fungus, and even […]

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Julie Su, Labor

LA Schools’ Lowest-Paid Workers Walk Out, With Teachers by Their Side

March 26, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike March 21-23, 2023, for the first time in four years, shutting down the nation’s second-largest school district for three rain-soaked days.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Community, economy, education, Health care, Human Rights, interview, Labor, Media, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, social justice, Teachers, Time-Sensitive

Tipping Is Not a Reward—It’s an Insult

February 19, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

man pouring wine on glasses

It’s time to end our national reliance on tipped workers. The unhealthy dynamic created by tipping emerges from decades of legalized subminimum wages and keeps workers subservient to the whims of employers and customers.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, economy, Evergreen, Gender, GOP/Right Wing, Human Rights, identity politics, Labor, Law, Media, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, social justice, Sonali Kolhatkar, Time-Sensitive, Women’s Rights

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