General Newsletter April 28, 2024 Download .pdf leaflet May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class In the 1880s, the United States was deeply unequal and divided. A few families owned the overwhelming bulk of U.S. wealth, and workers had to work up to 16 hours per...
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Travel nurses play a vital role in our hospitals – they help make sure patients are cared for when facilities have higher than usual census,...
In Martinez, a small suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area, two separate fires broke out at the Marathon oil refinery over the last month. In a fire on November 19, refinery worker, Jerome Serano, suffered third-degree burns on more than 80 percent of his body, which...
“We need to see pain in the economy,” said Australian multimillionaire Tim Gurner at a summit of plutocrats held last month in Sydney, Australia. Gurner argued that an increase in unemployment to “40 to 50 percent” is needed to make workers work harder....
In 1940, the United States government set 40 hours as the basic workweek. Since then, pay for hours worked above 40 has been calculated at time and a half. The government passed this law only after workers engaged in massive struggles, including taking over factories...
