| Sep 25, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers began striking earlier this month, demanding that General Motors pay them their fair share of the billions in profits the company raked in last year. The response from General Motors was shocking. The automaker, which...
| Sep 18, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy entire working life has been dictated by offshoring. I’ve spent my career jumping from one factory closing to another. When President Trump was elected, he said: “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences.” His promises ring...
| Aug 28, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyThe Constitution guarantees “freedom of speech,” the right to “peaceably assemble,” and the right to petition for “a redress of grievances.” Yet these civil rights are commonly denied to workers. Sure, we can say what we want, but we pay a high price to speak — often...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyYou deserve to have a say in matters that affect you. Everyone does. That’s democracy. This shouldn’t change when you go to work. Democratic rights in the workplace — including the right to form a union, and the power to speak up about workplace issues — go hand in...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyAs the primaries approach, Democratic presidential candidates will no doubt be touting their support for a $15 per hour minimum wage. None have opposed the idea. A minimum wage increase would put more money in workers’ pockets. But so far, only two candidates —...
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