WASHINGTON—The Department of Labor on Oct. 30 requested public comments on an Obama-era rule that would have extended overtime pay to 4.2 million workers, the first step in the process
This Sunday night, on the latest episode of LaborPress’ Blue Collar Buzz, “Listen Liberal” author Thomas Frank talks about the Democratic Party’s abandonment of the working class and where that
New York, NY – When more two-thousand striking Charter Spectrum workers and their supporters packed Times Square earlier this week, they weren’t there solely to send a powerful message to
I planned to write on the constitutionality of forced arbitration clauses this week, but something related intervened, which helps explain why forced arbitration is dangerous to our democracy.
The roll call of sexual predations continues to grow. Journalist and TV analyst Mark Halperin, co-author of the political bestseller, Game Change (2010), is just one more saga of a
WASHINGTON—Nurses returning from disaster-relief work in Puerto Rico charged Oct. 26 that the federal government is “delaying necessary humanitarian aide to its own citizens and leaving them to die.”
New York, N.Y.—“Basically, they’re trying to bust the union,” striking Spectrum field technician Juan Berroa told LaborPress during Monday’s Spectrum strike rally at 42nd & Broadway. “They don’t want to
New York, NY – From NYC to Puerto Rico, the challenges of first responders tasked with helping to clean up after the latest climate change-related disaster, looms large on the
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Western Pennsylvania Teamsters and Employers Pension Fund is the latest multiemployer pension plan to announce that it needs to cut benefits to stay solvent—and Bill Lickert is the
DES MOINES, Iowa—Last February, then-Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law one of the most draconian anti- union measures in the country. It prohibited public-sector workers other than police and
