Economy & Workers' Rights

417 posts

Food pantries across the country are suffering from the supply shortage

Food pantry workers say the shortage impacts the kind of food they distribute as well as the quality

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

COVID-19 safety concerns fuel efforts to unionize Starbucks stores

“They’re not really protecting us at all at this point.”

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5 Min
By: Allison Torres Burtka

Workers are being forced back into their jobs despite growing health risks

The new CDC guidelines allow employers to ask employees to come in when they’re not feeling well or have been exposed to COVID-19

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5 Min
By: Sakshi Udavant

The criminalization of unlicensed street vendors fuels state-sanctioned violence

Street vendors can address food scarcity in underserved areas but face an array of bureaucratic red tape and police violence

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7 Min
By: Kinjo Kiema

How unsafe housing conditions led to 2 fatal fires in a week

Housing advocates in New York City and Philadelphia have been pushing for more stringent safety standards for years, but their requests have largely been ignored

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5 Min
By: Roshan Abraham

BIPOC workers won’t see ‘full employment’ without a federal jobs guarantee

Advocates argue that creating a federal jobs guarantee program will help close racial wage gaps and unemployment inequities

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9 Min
By: Trevor Smith

COVID-19 energized worker-led organizing, but hurdles to collective action remain

Union rates remain at historic lows as workers still face high turnover, union busting, and fears of retaliation. These workers explain the barriers and the small wins that give them hope

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6 Min
By: Sydney Pereira

CDC’s decision to slash quarantine time in half concerns already overwhelmed health care professionals

BIPOC health professionals are struggling and overwhelmed from being infected with COVID-19, a rise in hospitalizations, and already existing health disparities

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Limited worker protections and unpredictable natural disasters leave workers vulnerable

After a tornado killed six Amazon workers in Illinois, the calls for worker protections from environmental disasters have strengthened

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Confronted with the holiday rush, understaffing, and Omicron, retail workers are organizing and speaking out

The week before Christmas, Indianapolis Target employee Andrew Stacy was spreading the word about a unionizing effort at their store. The busy holiday season—and new anxieties raised by the recently emerged Omicron variant of COVID-19—was no reason for them to wait until the New Year. The conditions

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5 Min
By: Sydney Pereira

In Minnesota, remaining workers face increased pressures at short-staffed employers

Impacted by the nationwide labor shortage, many workers are pushing for better conditions

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4 Min
By: Cirien Saadeh

Columbia’s student workers union unveils the university’s hypocritical liberal persona

The strike began Nov. 3, with union members calling for higher wages and more protections for graduate and undergraduate student workers

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

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