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Amazon Responds To Wage Theft Post
Amazon responds to our post on a Supreme Court case involving workers having to undergo screening for stolen goods off the clock. If employees don't actually wait very long to be screened, why not just pay them for their time?
Mr. President, Here Are Two Outstanding Choices for Attorney General
President Obama’s next pick for Attorney General could help reshape both the nation and his own legacy. Either of these candidates, William K. Black or Tom Perez, would be transformative.
Americans Should Embrace their Radical History (Redux)
As events in Jefferson County Colorado show, the right fears history and wants to suppress it. So, we must encourage our fellow citizens to remember how Americans have struggled to make the nation freer, more equal, and more democratic.
Good People Don’t Get Good Jobs
A mounting army of workers worries incessantly and survives only because of government and family assistance. CEOs and corporations gorge themselves on profits made on the suffering of workers trapped in this life of frightening instability
Progressive Breakfast
SCOTUS Expands Gay Marriage Supreme Court establishes equal marriage rights for majority of America. HuffPost: "The court declined to hear appeals from five states that were challenging lower-court rulings legalizing same-sex marriage ... It also set the stage for...
Wellstone Award Winner Saru Jayaraman: Empowering Restaurant Workers
The founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United is on the front lines with restaurant workers, highlighting their plight and giving them a voice to challenge the National Restaurant Association.
Why We Allow Big Pharma to Rip Us Off
Pharmaceutical companies and device makers paid doctors some $380 million over a five-month period in 2013. Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Amazon Wage Theft Case Comes Before The Supreme Court
If the Roberts court sides with Amazon, businesses will feel free to increase the ways they get time and work out of workers without paying them. Already, several major corporations are battling wage-theft claims.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Control On Knife's Edge With One Month To Go Battle for Senate tight. HuffPost: "The battle to control the Senate remains deeply competitive, according to new data from CBS/New York Times/YouGov polling conducted nationwide and NBC/Marist surveys in three key...
Progressive Champion Lee Saunders: "Disrupter" For Working People
The head of AFSCME is being honored for going beyond being a fierce defender of public employees to being an effective coalition-builder in the larger fight for the dignity of all working people.
