Reader voices: Night shift at McDonald’s, grease burns, minimum wage
I have worked in the fast food industry myself for two years; I can say it is an exhausting, very underpaying industry to work in.
25 hedge fund managers make more than all kindergarten teachers in America
Just 25 individuals make more than twice as much as all kindergarten teachers in America.
Where is the movement to turn around this economy?
To really keep up with just population growth some 200,000 good jobs, ones that pay a living wage, need to be created each month.
Seattle’s socialist councilmember delivers inaugural address
Sawant made national - and international - news after becoming the first socialist elected to the Seattle city council.
The stakes for workers' rights in 2014
We are now in the midst of a full-fledged class war against America's working people. Those directly firing the shots at the U.S. working class are an array of state lawmakers bought and paid for by powerful right wing groups.
$5.2 billion McDonald's CEO has $8.25 per hour mom arrested
Her treatment is one of many examples of how the gap between the rich and the poor isn't just a modern phenomenon; these days it's grown into a chasm.
Living wage or wage slavery: de Blasio vs. Lhota on the dignity of labor
Joe Lhota has now come out against de Blasio's plan for a living wage to New Yorkers working at projects that are subsidized by the city.
Where is justice in cutting food stamps?
Of those receiving government help in the form of food stamps or the SNAP program, 76 percent are children, disabled, or elderly.
Fast-food workers meet labor movement: a super-sized duo
There is an emerging nationwide movement of low-wage fast-food workers who have begun to set the tone regarding the federal minimum wage, fast-food workers' rights and the future of service sector work generally.
Civil rights 2013: a cautionary tale from Alabama
In July of 1963, I was preparing for my senior year at Nashville's Pearl High School. For me, news about the civil rights movement became an unsettling blend of darkest tragedies and heady victories.
