by Tom Conway | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Future of Work, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. They’ve kicked and head-butted her. They’ve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw a chair at her—and missed. Health care workers like Anderson, president...
by Tom Conway | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: CSB.gov / cc The March 2005 fire and explosions at BP’s Texas City, Texas, oil refinery killed 15 contractors and injured 180 other workers in ways that will haunt them forever. Some lost limbs. Others suffered horrific burns, head injuries or wounds...
by Tom Conway | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for the anti-union corporation to sniff out union organizing efforts. Lots of...
by Tom Conway | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Ga., had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got involved in union organizing at the plant, and management decided to teach...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality
Wars end with treaties. In the middle of the 20th century, the “class war” that finished off America’s original plutocracy ended with the “Treaty of Detroit.” Fortune, the business magazine, came up with that catchy turn of phrase back in 1950 to describe the landmark...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 12, 2019 | Economy, Featured, Future of Work, Health, Inequality
The weight of the wealth that sits at the top of America’s economic order isn’t just squeezing dollars out of the wallets of average Americans. That concentrated wealth is shearing years off of American lives. The latest evidence for that squeeze on American wallets...
