More than 75,000 employees in six states and Washington, D.C., of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare provider, on Wednesday began a three-day work stoppage.
Historic US Healthcare Worker Strike
Category: Labor
UAW Strike Spotlights CEO-Worker Pay Gap
Last year, the CEOs of the Big Three U.S. automakers received staggering pay packages, fueling workers’ ongoing push for better wages and benefits.
US LABOR DAY: The Minimum Wage at Age 85
Without any mechanisms to adjust for rising prices, the real value of the federal minimum wage hit a 66-year low in 2023, say the authors. It’s now worth 42 percent less than its highest point in 1968.
US LABOR DAY: UAW Files Charges Against Big Automakers
With contracts close to expiring, the labor union filed unfair labor practice charges against General Motors and Stellantis, accusing the major carmakers of illegally refusing to bargain in good faith.
Craig Murray: Destitution Capitalism
Ordinary U.K. citizens have been propagandised out of the belief that the state should in any way regulate economic activity for the greater good.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: A Voice Heard in the Land
Planned obsolescence has been the dominant policy of the Western elite toward the working class since the neoliberal power seizure of the 1980s, a message that comes through in a new song suddenly sweeping the world.
ChatGPT Still Needs Humans
There are many, many people working behind the screen, and they will always be needed if the model is to continue improving, writes John P. Nelson.
Amazon Workers Encouraged by UPS Wage Gains
UPS Teamsters are voting this month on the tentative agreement, Luis Feliz Leon reports. But the big wage gains are already reverberating at Amazon, which is slated to adjust its wage progression in the fall.
Chris Hedges: Nurses Fight Godzilla
The front line against corporate tyranny is not the ballot box. It is in the desperate struggle by the overworked and underpaid to prevent corporate behemoths from turning everyone into gig workers.
Chris Hedges: Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author’s hometown in Maine — as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.