Film and television actors and writers are striking against low pay and bad working conditions.
Working in America
Posted inWorking in America
Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC Phoenix Cuts Electrician Pay and Sends In Taiwanese Workers
After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.
Posted inPolitics
Radical Problems and Liberal Solutions
Joe Biden is doing well given the divided Congress. Unfortunately, the economy’s deep structural problems require far more drastic remedies—and failure has political fallout.
Posted inWorking in America
The Actors Walk
The strike of SAG-AFTRA highlights a summer of workers’ pushback against a finance-driven economy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Maine Unions Near Compromise With Governor on Offshore Wind
The governor rejected a bill requiring a project labor agreement in the state’s contract with offshore wind developers. Now, she is said to support a similar proposal that drops the term ‘PLA.’
Posted inWorking in America
Unionized Workers at Blue Bird Hit the Next Hurdle: a Contract
An assist from Biden administration electric bus subsidies helped pave the way to victory at a plant in right-to-work Georgia. But workers say tensions with management have grown.
Posted inPodcasts
Supreme Court Dog Days
With one hand, the Court enables discrimination. With the other, it steals $10,000 from student debtors.
Posted inWorking in America
The Truth About the Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike
Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.
Posted inTAP
A Great Jobs Report and a Vindication of Bidenomics
Today on TAP: Now, the Federal Reserve should just leave well enough alone.
