Mar 30, 2023
Since 2008, the average Wall Street bonus has climbed by more than 75 percent, compared to just a 54 percent increase in average earnings of all private sector workers and a 42 percent rise in manufacturing wages. If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $42.37 today.
Feb 28, 2023
Should our tax system be discouraging automation or leveling the tax playing field between workers and machines?
Mar 14, 2022
New York’s essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that.
Mar 10, 2022
Among care advocates, equitable paid leave policy needs to meet the triple A standard: Accessible, affordable, and adequate.
Dec 15, 2021
Our economic and racial divides grew even wider in 2021, but there are signs of hope for a more equitable future.
Nov 30, 2021
Student workers keep Columbia University running, yet many struggle to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Nov 12, 2021
This worker-driven organizing victory could pave the way for future debt relief.
Nov 3, 2021
Better wages and health care may always face headwinds in Washington, but unions are striking to win them directly.
Sep 6, 2021
As the super-rich got richer, the most economically precarious have been pushed to the curb.
Sep 2, 2021
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the COVID recovery — and beyond. Here are their responses.
May 18, 2021
We don’t have to organize our economy around enterprises that pay CEOs over 1,000 times what workers make.
Mar 18, 2021
And that senator is using his gavel to boost a bill that ups taxes on firms that pay executives outrageously more than their workers.
Mar 11, 2021
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
Mar 6, 2021
Unions don’t just raise worker wages. They help flatten grand private plutocratic fortunes.
Feb 15, 2021
In Arizona, two universities are spearheading an effort to unionize the entire state’s higher education workforce.