Low-wage workers

How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck

How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck How Corporate Monopolies Are Dragging Down Your Paycheck

If T-Mobile and Sprint merge, it could drive down wages for retail workers by thousands of dollars a year.

Feb 6, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000

Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000 Corporations Have Paid Out at Least $2.7 Billion in Civil-Rights and Labor Lawsuits Since 2000

Inside an analysis of corporate legal culture.

Feb 1, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Unite Here Strike

Union Benefits Go Far Beyond the Workplace Union Benefits Go Far Beyond the Workplace

Unions also fortify the social safety net and aid communities on the path to self-sufficiency.

Jan 22, 2019 / Michelle Chen

Reverend Dr. Theoharis at rally

How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’ How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’

A conversation with Reverend Liz Theoharis on the campaign’s broad agenda for 2019.

Jan 21, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann

Ford CEO Mark Fields

When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make Them Pay! When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make Them Pay!

Portland’s groundbreaking strategy for curbing executive compensation should be a model for the rest of the country.

Jan 17, 2019 / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati

Amazon

Is This the Turning Point in the Fight Against Amazon? Is This the Turning Point in the Fight Against Amazon?

New fronts against the mega-retailers brutal business practices are opening up all the time.

Dec 21, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Salon Worker

Is the Nail-Salon Industry Any Better for Workers Now? Is the Nail-Salon Industry Any Better for Workers Now?

Three years after a landmark exposé, have conditions improved in nail salons?

Dec 3, 2018 / Michelle Chen

working conditions protest

How Brown University Students and Dining Workers Got Better Working Conditions—Together How Brown University Students and Dining Workers Got Better Working Conditions—Together

They started by demanding air conditioning in the main campus dining hall—and now they’re asking for more. 

Nov 14, 2018 / Lucas Smolcic Larson

Seattle Minimum Wage Protest

Trump May Soon Deal Yet Another Blow to Union Rights Trump May Soon Deal Yet Another Blow to Union Rights

Rolling back so-called “joint-employer” protections could undermine the Fight for 15 and other vital campaigns.

Nov 9, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Twitch

Twitch Crosses the Picket Line Twitch Crosses the Picket Line

At an annual convention for online streamers, some attendees found common ground with striking hotel workers.

Nov 2, 2018 / Evan Malmgren

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