Using gulags, ostracism and forced labor, debate was silenced; a debate which perhaps could have opened the way to recognizing the system’s failings and won out over authoritarianism and mechanical obedience. ..…
Wisconsin also has a long history of labor activism. Before the violence of the 1892 Homestead steel strike in Pittsburgh and Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre in 1914, Milwaukee saw bloodshed on May 5, 1886, when 1,500 tradesmen and Polish immigrants demanding an eight-hour workday marched on the Rolling..…
Al Neal is a human-interest columnist and photographer for People’s World writing on politics, labor, the general ruckus in professional sports, and everything in between. ..…
Living wages and safe working conditions, including maximum work hours, for all incarcerated people for their labor. . ..…
September 4, 1972 | The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon . . The Jerry Lewis telethon was an annual event for decades, held to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. ..…
In doing so, it is at odds with any notion of the welfare state, any notion of labor unions, any notion of workers’ rights, and any notion of economic rights. ... So teachers are completely losing control over the conditions of their labor, they’re being abused, they’re not being paid..…
The list of other supporters included California Conference of NAACP, Courage Campaign, League of Women Voters and host of labor unions. ..…
By participating in this year, FRANKFORT — Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd on Monday questioned the process that led Kentucky Labor Secretary David Dickerson to declare last week that more than 1,000 teachers had broken the law's sickout protests... ... The Labor Cabinet..…
This devilry has also played in transforming American medical profession into diabolical sweatshop devoid of unions and labor laws, with the deteriorating rates of infant mortality, life expectancy and maternal mortality that have followed. ..…
Efforts on the part of Senator Penny Wong to claim drastically different Labor approach must be put to rest. ..…
Labor union weakness and America’s gradual shift to a service economy meant stagnant wages, fewer benefits and fewer hours of pay for workers. ... He also alienated many on the left, especially the Congressional Black Caucus, with his fiscal conservatism and inherent distrust of unions (possibly a..…
A fraction of the two dozen Democratic candidates committed to attend – though nearly all of them will attend a labor forum in central Iowa the following day. ..…
Time and again, candidates elevated to the office and key leadership positions are pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-corporatism over the welfare, anti-labor and anti-consumer. . ..…
Both, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, and so far, also Labor Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, have assured British people they will respect their choice no new referendum, no Parliamentary vote and instead, they foresaw negotiating a deal with Brussels. ... WA provides for period up to 31 December 2020 or..…
There are thousands of documented demonstrations, strikes and labor actions in China annually, serious environmental challenges, inequality and social control through the use of surveillance technology. ... Beijing has set a date of 2050 to become a “socialist society” and to achieve that, it..…
To enjoy shared and widespread prosperity, we must bolster peoples’ labor productivity. . ..…
It appears that this week, New York Times, the paper of record, upon. ..…