Today’s News & Commentary — July 23, 2021
In Kansas, Frito-Lay workers are continuing to strike as their efforts are picking up national...
Today’s News & Commentary — July 23, 2021
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Today’s News & Commentary—July 9, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary—July 9, 2021
A new study from Unite Here, a union that represents hotel workers, found that hotels’ plans to...
Today’s News & Commentary — July 1, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary — July 1, 2021
The landmark Supreme Court decision NCAA v. Alston allows college athletes to profit from their...
Today’s News & Commentary — June 17, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary — June 17, 2021
Workers and management at the New Yorker reached an agreement yesterday regarding the terms of...
Today’s News & Commentary — June 3, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary — June 3, 2021
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, "multi-agency effort to...
Essential Workers Did Not Ask to be “Heroes”
Essential Workers Did Not Ask to be “Heroes”
As the coronavirus pandemic finally, fitfully, draws to some sort of conclusion, the “essential...
What should the pandemic teach us about the future of unemployment insurance?
What should the pandemic teach us about the future of unemployment insurance?
One year ago, weeks into Covid-induced lockdowns and with the trajectory of the pandemic...
It’s Time to Repeal Work Requirements
It’s Time to Repeal Work Requirements
The Biden Administration recently moved to remove work requirements from the Medicaid Program,...
Invisible & Ignored Again: Domestic Workers Excluded from Vaccine Administration
Invisible & Ignored Again: Domestic Workers Excluded from Vaccine Administration
A few weeks ago, I created a petition because domestic workers were not included in the current...
Labor and COVID-19: A Long and a Short Attack on Progressive Collective Action
Labor and COVID-19: A Long and a Short Attack on Progressive Collective Action
If you cast your mind back over the decades that have elapsed since March 2020, you might dimly...
Today’s News & Commentary — January 14, 2020
Today’s News & Commentary — January 14, 2020
Yesterday, the House of Representatives began debating the impeachment of President Trump based...
Today’s News & Commentary—January 11, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary—January 11, 2021
Pressure continued mounting on corporations to cut off financial support to lawmakers who...