While we'd all like to think that unions exist to promote "the workers" or socialism or the revolution or whatever we want, the reality is that they exist to promote the interests of their own members. And while we'd also like to think that the...
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Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
Since the Opus Dei Court is going all-in for destroying any democratic accountability and implementing their vision of how great things were in 1950 despite no knowledge about actual life.
On June 24, 1867, Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. This remarkable strike did not succeed, but they made it very clear to the extremely rich and...
We talk a lot about the housing problems of the contemporary cities. But it's not only the cities. At least in some places, it is also a big problem in.
If there's one thing that unites all Republicans is that workers should have no rights at all. That leads to the annual chipping away of labor rights at the Supreme.
This is amazing. For most of a two-hour meeting last month, the leaders of a wealthy Silicon Valley town debated a new state law that vexed them: Senate Bill 9, allowing developers to build duplexes on single-family lots.The same day, the leaders of the town,...
Often, even with unions, one of the only ways to see real improvements in workplace conditions, especially health and safety, is in response to a disaster. For example, maybe the.
I often talk about the horrors of the garment trade and how, despite the feelings of big time liberal Washington pundits, it is actually very bad that workers die making.
Truth of the matter is that even for those who do understand that racism is a real problem and has been forever, we really underestimate the ubiquity and daily banality of that racism. It's literally everywhere and at nearly all times. This story on San...
Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine labels are seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo I've certainly criticized Gavin Newsom, but he's.
A waiter sets up a table in the outdoor dining area on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom, who later called it a "bad mistake," attended a.