Realities And Challenges Of Recuperated Workplaces In Argentina

Facultad Abierta (Open School) is something that in Latin America is usually known as a University Extension, understood as the university function that is dedicated to the community. Usually these have to do with cultural aspects, courses, workshops, and this issue has also been ... Read more

Worker Co-Ops Catch On In Philadelphia

Last fall, Colombia native Luis Eduardo Lozano and four other immigrant day laborers, tired of the indignities of scant, irregular hours and wage theft from employers, formalized the PWA Handymen Cooperative in Philadelphia. Now the worker-owned LLC offers residential and commercial interior and exterior ... Read more

How To Level The Playing Field For Workers — Even With Unions Hurting

The Supreme Court’s decision in?Janus vs. AFSCME?dealt organized labor, already on its heels, a crushing blow. Public employees who choose not to join unions now cannot be required to pay so-called “fair share” fees to compensate unions for the cost of representing them in wage ... Read more

UE General Executive Board: “Workers Need An Industrial Policy Not Tariffs”

President Trump’s recent announcement that he intends to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum is not a new or effective strategy for reviving American manufacturing. George W. Bush imposed tariffs on steel in 2002 and quietly removed them after only 18 ... Read more

Tip Stealing Rule Would Cost Workers $5.8 Billion

The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a rule that would make it legal for employers to pocket their workers’ tips, as long as they pay those workers at least the minimum wage. The proposed rule rescinds portions of longstanding DOL regulations that prohibit employers from taking tips.1?We ... Read more

More Power To The Workers

Melman always had a two-track intellectual focus, writing about both the military and the economy. The two concepts were intertwined in his books about the deleterious economic effects of military production, for instance, in ‘Pentagon Capitalism’, ‘The Permanent War Economy’, and ‘Profits without Production’. He ... Read more

After Generations Working In Coal, Young West Virginians Are Finding Jobs In Solar

Above Photo:?Solar Holler founder Dan Conant, foreground, looks on at the beginning of a solar roof installation in Lewisburg, West Virginia.?Jason Margolis Tanner Lee Swiger graduated from high school in Wayne County, West Virginia?this spring. His father and ... Read more

Radical White Workers During The Last Revolution

Above Photo: From?counterpunch.org “Poor whites are here today…to make ourselves visible to a society whose continued existence depends on the denial of our existence. We are here today united with other races of poor people, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, Indians, and Black people in a common ... Read more

Living Paycheck To Paycheck Is A Way Of Life For Majority Of U.S. Workers

Above Photo:?“We all know that our economy is broken. We have seen that elected officials are just failing to do anything about it,” said Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The Fairness Project. (Photo: Wisconsin Jobs Now/cc/flickr) – 78 percent of U.S. ... Read more

Inside America’s Largest Worker-Run Business

Above Photo: From?fastcompany.com Can workplace democracy pave the way to better conditions in low-wage industries? For home care aides, the results of one 30-year experiment are mixed. Fifteen years ago, Clara Calvo had just left her husband and her job. Both were abusive in their own ways. Her ... Read more