No Love for Working Families This Valentine’s Day
A Pennsylvania secretary gets an extra $1.50 a week from the GOP tax bill. The Koch brothers get an extra $27 million.
Proposal to Let Bosses Keep Workers’ Tips Provokes Investigation
Abolishing the regulation affirming that tips are the property of the employee would make women and people of color more vulnerable to exploitation.
Film: Dolores
An IPS and Indie Lens Pop-Up Film and community conversation about the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century.
Who Owns Tips? If Trump’s Department of Labor Gets Its Way, Not Workers
A new proposal would take tips out of the hands of the people who earn them.
Understanding Retail’s Volatile Moment
While you’re holiday shopping, remember the unstable job conditions for retail workers.
What’s One Way to Fight Inequality? Fund Local Journalism.
Joe Rickett’s decision to shut down two major online publicationshas altered the local U.S. news environment. Barbara Ehrenreich plans on restoring it.
Trump’s Tax Plan Taunts the Dignity of Labor
If it passes, this plan would have our national tax burden resting overwhelmingly on income from the labor of working people.
Jane Fonda Takes on ‘the Other NRA’
The actress and lifelong activist joins restaurant workers in the fight to end sub-minimum tipped wage.
Book Event: Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism
Come to the book launch with co-author Marc Fasanella, whose new book showcases the vibrant images of social conscience of his renowned father, Ralph Fasanella the activist whose megaphone was his paintbrush.
Detroit’s Revival Can’t Happen Without Women of Color
The story of the city’s revival will be a mythical fable if it is not grounded in uplifting long-term Detroiters and their neighborhoods, in addition to the newcomers the city is attracting.
Trump Promised to Put American Workers First. He Lied.
Proposed cuts to federal agency budgets and changes to employment law benefit only the US president and his cronies.
Nissan Intimidated Its Workers into Voting “No” on Unionizing
After a failed union vote in Canton, Mississippi, Bayard talks about what went wrong and what can be done to move the labor movement forward.
How Air Conditioning Unites — And Divides
Most Americans now have A/C at home. At work, it’s a different story.
A Fight for Civil and Labor Rights: Union Vote Looms at Nissan
Workers in a Nissan Auto plant are close to winning one of the largest successes for labor in decades.
Black-led Labor Organizers Discuss Challenges and Tactics of Black Worker Organizing in the Trump Era at State of Black Workers in America Conference
The Institute for Policy Studies held its 3rd State of Black Workers in America Conference at historic Howard University.