March 8, 2021 Editorial of the Etincelle newsletters As a result of covid, the government gave up on the unemployment benefits cut originally scheduled for April 1, 2020. Nevertheless, Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne announced that this unemployment insurance reform...
You probably heard Andrew Cuomo’s name in the news recently, and that’s because the Democratic New York governor has had to face some dirty truths the past few weeks. It has been reported that Cuomo has been sexually harassing and assaulting women on his staff. So far...
Democrats in Congress are using their passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in the House of Representatives to play the old “good guy, bad guy” routine, casting themselves as the good-guys fighting to support workers’ rights, and casting...
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama have been organizing to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. If these workers successfully build a union at Amazon, a notoriously anti-union company, it would be a signal to thousands more that it is possible. On...
In the past year hate crimes against Asian-Americans have skyrocketed. In New York City alone, there were 28 hate crimes against Asian-Americans, compared to just three the previous year. And there have been numerous attacks against Asian-Americans caught on video in...
