Labeling jobs as “low-skill” functions as a tool of the ruling class to pit white-collar workers against blue-collar or service industry workers
Sharon Zhang
As the company hailed its grocery workers as “heroes,” it cut hazard pay early in the pandemic while pursuing over $1 billion in stock buybacks in 2020
About 1,400 workers have been on strike since October 5, sparking boycotts of the cereal company’s products as it threatened to permanently replace the striking workers
If they’re successful, they’ll join Buffalo workers in being the first of the company’s roughly 9,000 corporate-owned locations to form a union
“Allowing payments and collections to resume without taking these actions to protect borrowers in default would undermine our economic recovery”
Progressive lawmakers are celebrating after Starbucks workers in Buffalo triumphed over nearly insurmountable odds to form the company’s first-ever union
“If you work full time, you should be able to live with full financial security, and that’s not the case in California”
“If BBB [is] gutted/dies, we may have just locked in US emissions and thrown away our biggest chance to combat climate change”
Because the proposal almost exclusively favors the wealthy and the 1 percent, progressives are vehemently opposed to the idea
Between John Deere, Kellogg’s, Kaiser Permanente and film and television workers, over 100,000 workers are striking or have threatened strikes in recent weeks