Federal Workers Pivot from Shutdown to Defeat Childcare Cuts Sections Political Action Read more about Federal Workers Pivot from Shutdown to Defeat Childcare Cuts
For working Washingtonians, a breakthrough session in Olympia Sections Political Action Read more about For working Washingtonians, a breakthrough session in Olympia
California Labor Urges Legislature to Rein in Out-of-Control High-Interest Lenders by Passing AB 539 Sections Political Action Read more about California Labor Urges Legislature to Rein in Out-of-Control High-Interest Lenders by Passing AB 539 Most working people experience extreme financial hardship at one time or another. It’s the sad reality of an economy that prioritizes wealth-hording by the super rich over the basic needs of everyday people. Compounding the problem of so many of us living paycheck-to-paycheck is the largely unregulated market for high-interest loans.
Message of the Day—We Will Get to the Promised Land Sections Political Action Read more about Message of the Day—We Will Get to the Promised Land Working people descended on Memphis, Tennessee, last year to recognize the 50-year anniversary
California Labor Applauds 100 Percent Legislators Who Stand with Working People, Fight Trump’s Attacks Sections Political Action Read more about California Labor Applauds 100 Percent Legislators Who Stand with Working People, Fight Trump’s Attacks The California Labor Federation released its Force for Progress legislative scorecard for 2018 today, applauding those in the state legislature who voted to support working people on key priorities like strengthening the middle class, fighting sexual and racial discrimination in the workplace, affordable housing, infrastructure investment, protection of immigrant workers and other worker issues 100 percent of the time during last year’s legislative session.
5 Reasons the CA Legislature Must Say Yes on AB 5 Sections Political Action Read more about 5 Reasons the CA Legislature Must Say Yes on AB 5 In last April’s landmark, unanimous California Supreme Court ruling in the Dynamex case, the court delivered one of the most pro-worker decisions in decades, enshrining a simple A-B-C test that employers must comply with to designate workers as “independent contractors.” The ruling was made necessary by the growing trend of corporations calling workers contractors just so they wouldn’t be on the hook to provide basic protections like unemployment insurance or workers’ compensation.
Race, Labor, and Activism on the Waterfront Sections Political Action Read more about Race, Labor, and Activism on the Waterfront For those unfamiliar with the radical history of dockworkers leading the fight against economic and racial inequality for workers across color lines, Peter Cole’s book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area will be a revelation. Who knew that longshoremen were at the forefront of the antiracist movement decades before labor supported civil rights by integrating, supporting and fighting for Black workers, despite Jim Crow?
Let’s close ‘most outrageous loophole in the tax code’ Sections Political Action Read more about Let’s close ‘most outrageous loophole in the tax code’ Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) are (re)introducing the Carried Interest Fairness Act, which would close the carried interest tax loophole.
California Labor Applauds 100 Percent Legislators Who Stand with Working People, Fight Trump’s Attacks Sections Political Action Read more about California Labor Applauds 100 Percent Legislators Who Stand with Working People, Fight Trump’s Attacks The California Labor Federation released its Force for Progress legislative scorecard for 2018 today, applauding those in the state legislature who voted to support working people on key priorities like strengthening the middle class, fighting sexual and racial discrimination in the workplace, affordable housing, infrastructure investment, protection of immigrant workers and other worker issues 100 percent of the time during last year’s legislative session.
Race, labor, and activism on the waterfront Sections Political Action Read more about Race, labor, and activism on the waterfront For those unfamiliar with the radical history of dockworkers leading the fight against economic and racial inequality for workers across color lines, Peter Cole’s book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area will be a revelation.