Local Union Leaders Endorse YRCW Tentative Agreement teamster.org ...Yesterday, leaders from Teamster local unions that represent workers at YRC Worldwide Inc. overwhelmingly recommended to approve a tentative agreement and to send it out to the members for a vote...
Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left Mother Jones ...They beat Big Labor in its own backyard. Next up: your state?...
Labor Finds an Unlikely Savior in Scalia In These Times...On Tuesday morning, something curious happened at the Supreme Court: Justice Antonin Scalia gave a full-throated defense of public-sector unions. The case, Harris v. Quinn, involves the narrow question of whether or not Illinois home healthcare workers are public employees and if they are permitted to join public-sector unions...
In Memphis, Locked-Out Kellogg Workers Evoke MLK’s Legacy In These Times ...Union workers picket outside Kellogg's Memphis plant after being locked out for refusing to accept lower pay and more part-time positions..
This Deep Red State Could Be Next To Have Paid Family Leave ThinkProgress ...On Thursday, a group of Nebraska state Senators introduced a package of legislation aimed at helping the state’s workers, including a measure that would create a paid family leave program…
Corporations Hoard Cash While Americans Go Without A Job Economic Populist ...The amount of cash multinational corporations are stashing is at an all time high and economists are wondering why...
Five big questions about the massive chemical spill in West Virginia Washington Post ...A closer look at what the Elk River spill says about America’s outdated chemical-safety laws...
What I Learned from a Week on Food Stamps: Paul Ryan Couldn’t Be Any More Wrong The Salon ...Republicans have their sights set on food-stamp cuts that would devastate lower-income Americans...
Surge In Homeless Deaths Expected Over Next Decade Unless We Act ThinkProgress ...Hundreds of thousands of homeless people could die over the next decade as the homeless population in the United States grows older but continues to lack access to proper housing, food, or medical care...
Foreclosure Settlement Still Failing 700,000 Families One Year Later Huffington Post ...One year after federal bank regulators pledged that a nearly $10 billion legal settlement would quickly deliver cash to foreclosure abuse victims, hundreds of thousands of people are still checking their mailboxes each day, only to find them empty...
