Labor

How Women Are Shaping the Labor Movement and Winning Big

How Women Are Shaping the Labor Movement and Winning Big How Women Are Shaping the Labor Movement and Winning Big

And interview with Journalist Sheila Bapat on how domestic workers—mostly immigrant women and women of color—are winning labor protections nationwide.

Jun 12, 2014 / Dani McClain

What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?

What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer? What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?

After losing her seasonal position, guestworker Maria Guzman decided to stand up to her former employer.

Jun 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen

Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases?

Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases? Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Blocking Minimum-Wage Increases?

With friends like this, who needs Republicans.

Jun 11, 2014 / Sam Adler-Bell

Does Feminism Have a Class Problem?

Does Feminism Have a Class Problem? Does Feminism Have a Class Problem?

Whatever you think of Sheryl Sandberg, her book Lean In achieved one very important objective: it exposed the deep class divide within American feminism.

Jun 11, 2014 / Kathleen Geier and Curve Contributors

New Jersey Unions in Revolt Against Christie’s Attack on Pensions

New Jersey Unions in Revolt Against Christie’s Attack on Pensions New Jersey Unions in Revolt Against Christie’s Attack on Pensions

Unions representing hundreds of thousands of workers go to court against the governor.

Jun 10, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss

Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy

Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy Why Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Hike Is Good for Business and the Economy

Should America be looking to Seattle for solutions to its broken economic system?

Jun 9, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Temp Nation: How Corporations Are Evading Accountability, at Workers’ Expense

Temp Nation: How Corporations Are Evading Accountability, at Workers’ Expense Temp Nation: How Corporations Are Evading Accountability, at Workers’ Expense

Fixing the regulatory regime for outsourcing requires both new modes enforcement and reforms that target corporations’ systematic evasion tactics.

Jun 6, 2014 / Michelle Chen

This Simple Fix Could Lift Hundreds of Thousands of Working Women Out of Poverty

This Simple Fix Could Lift Hundreds of Thousands of Working Women Out of Poverty This Simple Fix Could Lift Hundreds of Thousands of Working Women Out of Poverty

How can we help to make sure that Walmart’s employees can both financially support their children and tuck them in at night?

Jun 4, 2014 / Michelle Chen

How to Fight Economic Inequality—Right Now

How to Fight Economic Inequality—Right Now How to Fight Economic Inequality—Right Now

A new initiative aims to put wages at the heart of the inequality debate.

Jun 4, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

In Today’s America, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts

In Today’s America, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts In Today’s America, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts

A super-wealthy few have successfully defeated all of their rivals—unions, the media, honest politicians, environmentalists—and now are free to do as they wish.

Jun 3, 2014 / Peter Van Buren

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