Santa Fe’s Plan for a Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons for Costly California
New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.
The Good and Bad of Amazon’s ‘Dark Patterns’ Settlement
The government's deal with Amazon skips over what could have been a valuable case for regulators and the public.
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?
Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers
The future of collective bargaining and labor rights in the United States is on the table.
Can Kamala Harris Reach Blue Collar Workers?
There’s a way, but it won’t be easy.
Come on Joe: Stop John Deere from Shipping Jobs to Mexico
By Les Leopold / Substack The greed of the John Deere company is giving President Biden the perfect opportunity to win back working-class voters. All he needs to do is…
‘A Historic Agreement’: UAW Reaches Tentative Deal With Stellantis
"We not only secured a record contract, we have begun to turn the tide on the war on the American working class," UAW President Shawn Fain said.
Labor Is Back and Standing Tall
The rise in organizing efforts around the country have demonstrated Americans’ strong desire to be fairly compensated as workers and humans.
UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket line. "And they want to call us…
‘Something Must Change’: New Jersey Nurses Strike for Safe Staffing
By Kelsey Khan / Labor Notes I am one of 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are members of United…
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen…
The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
The Chris Hedges Report: COVID-19 Proved Workers, Not the Bosses, Make the World Run
Maximillian Alvarez discusses his most recent book on so-called ‘essential workers’ at the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ‘The Work of Living’, with Chris Hedges.
Workers, Machines, and ‘Bonus Depreciation’
By Bob Lord / CounterPunch Bernie Sanders and Bill Gates don’t agree on many things, but they both want to see a “robot tax,” a special levy on companies that…
When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers
By Algernon Austin / CEPR In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on…