NYC Council bans hiring discrimination against unemployed
While this important anti-discrimination measure passed overwhelmingly in the city council by a 44-4 vote, opposition continues from employers and their advocates.
Report challenges anti-immigrant "enforcement first" calls
The United States already spends more money on and has more infrastructure devoted to stopping undocumented immigrants from entering the country than for any other activity designated as illegal.
Should kids go to jail for skipping school?
"What is the responsibility of the school? If they have a 50 percent failure rate, it should indicate something is wrong."
Women's leader warns that everyone's health care is under attack
Right-wingers are waging an assault on the rights not just of women, but of all workers.
NAACP's Jealous keynotes National Lesbian and Gay Rights Task Force convention
Over 3,000 mostly young activists representing a rainbow of sexual orientation and ethnicities crowded into the Baltimore Hilton Hotel January 26-29 to learn ways to win LGBT rights.
Unemployed no longer welcome to apply for jobs?
Big business has set up a new roadblock for the jobless: employers only consider hiring those who are already working, reported the AFL-CIO. In other words, the unemployed need not apply.
High Court to women Wal-Mart workers: You’re on your own!
The lawsuit, had it been allowed to proceed as a class action, could have involved up to 1.6 million women, with Wal-Mart facing billions of dollars in damages.
Banquet speakers see politics behind Islamophobia
Corey Saylor, National Government Affairs Director, described CAIR as being at the forefront of the defense of civil liberties for all Americans.
Court ruling victory for African American firefighters
African Americans represent 32.4 percent of Chicago but they make up only 17 percent respectively of the city's fire department.
Small Wal-Mart action led to big sex discrimination suit
It all started with something Betty Dukes didn't do in 1998 at a Wal-Mart store in Pittsburg, Calif. She didn't come back late from lunch.
