While Washington state agencies reduce farmworker pay and find employers faultless for a death in the fields, Trump and congressional Republicans back proposals to turn farmworking into permanent indentured servitude.
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Workers Strike and Promote Boycotts on Amazon Prime Day
The online retail giant had an eventful Prime Day, with strikes, boycotts, demonstrations—and of course, billions of dollars in profit.
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Bank Workers Rising
The workers who blew the whistle on Wells Fargo have joined with other bank employees to win a better life for themselves and a safer economy for the nation.
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A Tax Cut for Workers and Financial Security for Their Unions
And a way that organized labor can mitigate the damage from the Janus decision
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Farm Work Can Be a Skilled and Permanent Job
A Salinas grower and the union bet that a new contract will become an alternative to employing guest workers.
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Immigrants and Unions Make America Great
And they’re fighting back against Trump’s onslaught
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After Janus: Labor’s Recommitment Campaigns Energize the Rank and File
In the wake of the Janus ruling, well-funded right-to-work groups are preparing digital and door-to-door campaigns aimed at California’s public-sector workers.
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Will Another D.C.-Based Government Disdain Democratic Norms?
We already have Trump’s Republicans. Will the District’s Democratic mayor and council now opt to ignore the voters’ decision to raise the minimum wage?
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D.C. to Decide on Giving Its Servers a Raise
Next week’s election includes an initiative to hike the tipped worker minimum ($3.33) to the level ($12.50) for all other District workers.
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Take This Bullshit Job and Pretend to Love It
David Graeber’s new book explores why millions of people’s labor seems divorced from meaning or value.
