The Fight for $15 Is Starting to Fight for Fair Schedules The Fight for $15 Is Starting to Fight for Fair Schedules
They're building a framework for a new normal in the low-wage workplace.
Oct 3, 2016 / Michelle Chen
6.8 Million Teenagers Are Food-Insecure 6.8 Million Teenagers Are Food-Insecure
Young adults are increasingly victims of a failing economy that is leaving them starving.
Sep 28, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Religion Versus Unions Religion Versus Unions
Some professors at the Jesuit Seattle University have been barred from organizing because their jobs are too religious in nature.
Sep 26, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Trump’s Terrible, No-Good Solution for Gender Inequality in the Workplace Trump’s Terrible, No-Good Solution for Gender Inequality in the Workplace
To center the childcare debate around tax breaks and minimal subsidies is insulting to all working women.
Sep 21, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and its ilk protect profits at the expense of prevention.
Sep 19, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Another Free-Trade Deal Bites the Dust Another Free-Trade Deal Bites the Dust
Negotiations surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have been indefinitely suspended.
Sep 16, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools
The teachers across Agora Cyber Charter’s “virtual classrooms” have won an unlikely organizing victory.
Sep 14, 2016 / Michelle Chen
A $15 Minimum Wage Would Stop 1.2 Million Households From Going Hungry A $15 Minimum Wage Would Stop 1.2 Million Households From Going Hungry
Fourteen percent of households are classified as “food insecure.” That has to change.
Sep 9, 2016 / Michelle Chen
People With Disabilities Aren’t Entitled to the Minimum Wage People With Disabilities Aren’t Entitled to the Minimum Wage
Antiquated labor laws treat people with disabilities as second-tier employees.
Sep 7, 2016 / Michelle Chen
The Burkini Ban Represents Everything That Is Wrong About France’s Approach to Minorities The Burkini Ban Represents Everything That Is Wrong About France’s Approach to Minorities
The country’s militant secularism treats otherness as a temporary phase on the road to assimilation.
Sep 2, 2016 / Michelle Chen