Tag Archive: Labor
The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
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Activism, Asia/Japan, Economy, Europe, Europe/Germany, Europe/Italy, Europe/Spain, GOP/Right Wing, History, Labor, News, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Time-Sensitive, Trump
Released for Syndication: 09/10/2020
Viewing the GOP convention seemed a little like binge-watching the last several years’ parade of none-too-subtle signs of incipient fascism. We saw extreme nationalism,...
Full ArticleHow America Continues to Fail the Health Care Workers Battling the Pandemic
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 09/08/2020
American Red Cross workers travel from one community to another conducting the blood drives that save countless lives in emergency departments and operating rooms....
Full ArticleWhy Courts Across the World Are Ruling That the Gig Economy Is Paving the Road to Serfdom
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Economy, Europe/United Kingdom, Health Care, Labor, Law, News, North America/Canada, North America/United States of America, Social Benefits, Tech, Time-Sensitive
Released for Syndication: 08/21/2020
Companies have consistently sought to deny their workers traditional benefits via labor law loopholes that the courts are rapidly closing.
Full ArticleSocialist or Capitalist—What Is China’s Model, Exactly?
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Asia/China, Economy, Europe, Europe/Germany, Europe/Italy, Europe/Russia, Europe/United Kingdom, Health Care, History, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, War
Released for Syndication: 08/21/2020
Near the end of his life Lenin gave a speech that referred to the USSR as a transitional society. He explained that socialists had...
Full ArticleHow Donald Trump Abandoned America’s Workers When They Needed Him the Most
By
Tom Conway
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Economy, GOP/Right Wing, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, Trump
Released for Syndication: 08/18/2020
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) furloughed him and...
Full ArticleThe Federal Agency Designed to Protect Workers Is Trying to Destroy Unions and Weaken Labor Rights
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 08/11/2020
When Dan Hoskins tried to organize colleagues at an Oregon plant in 2019, vindictive managers marched him past as many workers as possible en...
Full ArticleWhy a Growing Force in Brazil Is Charging That President Jair Bolsonaro Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity
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Activism, Economy, Health Care, Human Rights, Indigenous Resistance, Labor, Law, News, Politics, South America/Brazil, Time-Sensitive
Released for Syndication: 08/11/2020
Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job...
Full ArticleWhy Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
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Democratic Party, Economy, GOP/Right Wing, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Time-Sensitive, Trump, War
Released for Syndication: 08/07/2020
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long...
Full ArticleWhy the Idea of Jobless Benefits Scares the Conservative Mind
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Economy, GOP/Right Wing, Labor, News, North America/United States of America, Politics, Social Benefits, Time-Sensitive, Trump
Released for Syndication: 07/31/2020
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed us to conduct an experiment on how government assistance is good for people and the economy.
Full ArticleWhy a Strengthened Labor Movement Is Essential to Fixing America’s Unjust Economy
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 07/31/2020