Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say
Jenny Brown for Labor Notes. Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon…
DOGE Attacks On Social Security Have Left Millions In The Lurch
Disabled, ill, and aging Americans are facing a broken system that’s now harder to navigate than ever. Marianne Dhenin for Truthout hen Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) was…
Two Bold Proposals to Tax Wealth Across the Land
Wealth tax proposals from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren show a growing appetite to rein in the rich. Chuck Collins for Inequality.org How can the U.S. reverse democracy-distorting concentrations…
Immigrant Workers Launch Largest US Meatpacking Strike in 40 years
Maximillian Alvarez Working People Podcast TRNN “Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to…
Working People are Leaving MAGA, But Where Will They Go?
Les Leopold Substack A new study by Jared Abbott and Joan C. Williams, of nearly 2 million 2024 Trump voters, shows that more than one in five are not planning…