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 following short video {5 min} was produced and edited by Paula Pecorella and Meg Herschlein for the website More Perfect Union. In this excellent video railroad workers discuss many of the reasons that could lead to a major railroad strike in the U.S. as soon as...
The following article has been edited and reprinted from our workplace newsletter at BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT. The BART Board approved the tentative agreement and it is now a contract. That means a 10.5% wage increase over three years. But where does that leave BART...
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...
