At the rate things are going, the gender wage gap in the U.S. won’t close until 2053. And if things don’t change, the last state — Wyoming — won’t have… Read more »
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Freedom Socialist editorial — Lessons of Wisconsin
So-called right-to-work laws have made the U.S. South a bastion of low wages and working-class misery for more than 50 years. Now reactionary forces, bankrolled by big business and armed… Read more »
LABOR WEATHER REPORT — A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle.
February 2015 — Where’s the aloha? Kaiser Permanente health workers in Hawaii strike for six days after management offers puny pay raises, tries to end guaranteed pensions for new hires,… Read more »
Tesoro oil refinery workers demand right to clock out alive
The workers above are picketing their plant, the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes, Wash., on Valentines Day. They are members of United Steelworkers, which launched a national strike on Feb…. Read more »
La demanda contra el sindicato de maestros de California amenaza a todo el movimiento laboral
Esta primavera en el estado de Washington, miles de maestros abandonaron sus puestos de trabajo para protestar contra el desfinanciamiento de la educación pública. En Wisconsin en 2011, los maestros… Read more »
“Right to work” lawsuit threatens all unions: Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association
In Washington state this spring, thousands of teachers walked off their jobs to protest chronic underfunding of public education. In Wisconsin in 2011, teachers were leaders in the historic occupation… Read more »
Closing the gender pay gap: what will it take?
The battle for equal pay for women has gained attention recently, although it’s simmered for decades. In the 1950s, women got 60 cents for every dollar paid to men. Sixty… Read more »
Adjunct professors: academia’s overstressed, underpaid labor force
Like most adjunct professors, Mick Parsons, an instructor in Louisville, Ky., lectures at several institutions to earn a salary that works out to less than minimum wage, with no benefits…. Read more »
The unstoppable fight for $15: Low-wage workers won’t take no for an answer
From the early scattered strikes against Burger King and McDonald’s, the movement for $15 an hour has blossomed, logging many small but growing victories in cities and states across the… Read more »
I was a pieceworker for Google
Working in a call center is pure hell. I was hired by a company that manages the 24/7 call center that contracts tech support for Google, the developer of the… Read more »
