Labor

A veteran lineman reports from the picket line about the telecom workers’ stand against a corporate greed that has CEOs making well over $25,000 a day.  John Mudie is right...

Economic justice activists are championing laws that shift the costs of toxic poverty wages from communities to corporations. Imagine if a corporation set up shop in your community and immediately...

The leading advocate for U.S. restaurant workers is releasing a new book that aims to redefine success in the deeply unequal restaurant business.

Whether industrial or service, jobs become “good” only because of coordinated pressure from workers. Current campaigns across the United States to unionize service workers reflect a decades-long transformation, as service-sector employment...

This Labor Day, let's end the erratic scheduling practices that keep the country's workers reliant on the whims of their employers.

We have taxes on the labor we do and another set of taxes on wealth. Two years ago, my colleague Sam Pizzigati and I penned an op-ed, A Tax System...

A new report reveals just how much the restaurant industry’s current low-wage model costs ordinary taxpayers. More than four million Americans work in the full service restaurant industry. Of these,...

McDonald's is the latest mega-rich corporate employer to announce it's giving workers a raise. In a press release this week, McDonald's announced it would raise workers' wages to at least...

 There are several factual and well-established reasons why corporations owe a great debt to the nation that has made them rich. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_8665" align="alignright" width="212"] Corporations use...