Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/workers/page/18/)
During the day, immigrant teenagers attend high school. At night, they work in factories to pay debts to smugglers and send money to family. The authorities aren’t surprised by child labor. They’re also not doing much about it.
Around 70 employees of food distribution company Cash-Wa began striking in North Dakota on Wednesday over concerns about COVID-19.
Workers are hoping their voices will be heard under the new administration.
“It’s just another effort to destabilize the VA because, ultimately, they want to privatize the VA,” AFGE District 8 Vice President Gregg James said. “There are trillions of dollars available if millions of veterans have to go downtown to ge their care.”
As the COVID-19 health crisis surges in Minnesota, election workers are on the frontlines of democracy and the pandemic.
It is still possible, though, to find engaging and valuable movies about working people where labor/management conflict is not the central focus. Here are my recommendations of some of the best that have come out since Norma Rae and Labor Notes debuted back in 1979.
Restoring America in the wake of COVID-19 and racial injustice requires empowering workers.
The American Nurses Association has rescinded its endorsement policy, the first time in decades they will not endorse a presidential candidate.
Instead of using bailout money to keep workers, at least two companies restored the full pay of their top management.
With time running out and Republicans balking at more Covid relief, U.S. workers are facing a future of financial misery.