Imagine picking up the phone to find that you are being sued by the nursing home where your loved one recently passed away. A father, a brother, an aunt. For many people, nursing homes are the final resting place, along with the last remnants of their pennies. Many of...
In the summer of 2022, we have seen how extreme heat brought on by climate disruption is jeopardizing the health and safety of workers, and even taking their lives. In late June, a 24-year-old UPS truck driver named Esteban Chavez died in his truck while...
It isn’t only the US that’s seeing the highest inflation rates in decades: across the world workers are facing rising prices without any rise in real wages. In Panama, these impossible increases to the cost of living resulted in an explosion: throughout July, hundreds...
“Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are.” – Miguel de Cervantes On August 4, in Texas, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicked off with a speech by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. Republican activists and...
The Supreme Court is far from the only force that is determined to turn back the clock on human rights in the U.S. In Alabama, a Hyundai subsidiary called SMART, which supplies car parts to nearby Hyundai factories, was recently found to be using child labor. The...
