Workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama have been offered $2,000 dollars by the company to resign amidst their effort to unionize their workplace. Workers who quit would forfeit their vote in the union election which is slated to continue until...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a particular crisis for women all around the world. Before the pandemic, one in three women were victims of violence. But since the pandemic, an increase in domestic violence cases and attacks on women have been reported all across...
The devastating impact of the freezing temperatures that hit Texas last month is nowhere near over. Still, over one million Texans have been without drinking water, most of whom are from working class households. Hundreds of thousands of homes and apartments have...
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, despite having plenty of money, has used the pandemic as an excuse to make huge cuts and layoffs to staff. Rutgers has an endowment totaling $1.467 billion dollars and about $650 million in annual research grants. In...
On February 15th, Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél was imprisoned. His crime? Writing song lyrics that compared the Spanish king to a Mafia boss. Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with an elected legislature and a ceremonial royal family. But along with its symbolic...
