by Miya Pontes | Apr 22, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
More than 600 federal workers went on strike today, including about three dozen Senate employees, in a protest over low pay by federal contractors. The strike won support from members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), who joined the U.S. Senate contract...
by Miya Pontes | Apr 16, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
In addition to being the day hundreds of thousands of workers participated in "Fight for $15" strikes around the nation and the world to call for better pay for low-wage workers, Wednesday was also lobby day for the National Restaurant Association, which had its...
by Miya Pontes | Mar 25, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Walk into a McDonald’s in San Francisco, New York, or any small town, and you will see very similar layouts, uniforms, and menus. You know what to expect from any individual restaurant because McDonald’s exerts considerable control over each franchisee. However,...
by Miya Pontes | Mar 18, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A trade agreement created to benefit American corporations is being fast-tracked in secret, leaving economists and labor activists concerned. And today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka took those concerns to an audience of economic and foreign-policy elites at the...
by Miya Pontes | Feb 5, 2015 | Progressive Vision
This Valentine’s Day – Saturday, February 14 – join the Forward Together Moral Movement's Mass Moral March on Raleigh in North Carolina. The march is a protest against extremist right-wing policies that are having detrimental effects on the people of North Carolina,...
