New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.
A former child farmworker and other activists are working to bring farmworker kids out of the shadows and get them the same protections as kids in other industries.
Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.
The question we should be asking is not whether domestic caregiving is more or less important than wage work—they’re both crucial, and crucially different.
Mitt Romney has estimated he’ll pay a tax rate of only 15.4 percent. He's among the millionaires and billionaires – the 1 percenters – enjoying the lowest levels in 50 years.
Selma James coined the term "unwaged" work to describe the real work of housewives--and she has some thoughts that Mitt and Ann Romney might learn from.
Most American workers labor under the auspices of employment-at-will, which allows employers to hire, fire and promote for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all.
Walter Ewing, Immigrant Impact. February 15, 2012.
The report reaches a number of conclusions not only about the benefits of immigration to Maryland, but about which policies maximize those benefits and which policies stifle them.
George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence. January 29, 2012.
Scandinavian workers realized that, electoral “democracy” was stacked against them, so nonviolent direct action was needed to exert the power for change.
Better technology is not sufficient to build a better society. To really change lives, corporations must use their work force to improve democracy and equality.
Dems in the legislature skipped sessions to block the bill, and rallies in protest draw crowds of thousands as Indiana workers fight a union-busting "right-to-work" bill.
Internship culture has become a source of class division, favoring the privileged, excluding others from opportunities granted to their better-off peers.
Emily Creighton, Melissa Crow, Immigration Impact. September 29, 2011.
Confusion over "applicant-caused delay" forces many to work without authorization at serious risk of exploitation, while others must rely on the goodwill of others.
