Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In recent decades, we have rarely seen so much worker anger and so many strikes as we’ve seen since COVID-19 hit America. Fears of the virus have greatly emboldened American workers.McDonald’s workers walked out in , and to protest a lack of personal protective equipment, while went on strike to demand safer conditions and $2 more an hour in hazard pay.In , and , Amazon employees walked out to demand that the company do more to protect them against the coronavirus. Instacart workers in numerous cities to demand an extra $5 per order...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In recent decades, we have rarely seen so much worker anger and so many strikes as we’ve seen since COVID-19 hit America. Fears of the virus have greatly emboldened American workers.McDonald’s workers walked out in , and to protest a lack of personal protective equipment, while went on strike to demand safer conditions and $2 more an hour in hazard pay.In , and , Amazon employees walked out to demand that the company do more to protect them against the coronavirus. Instacart workers in numerous cities to demand an extra $5 per order...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldThe US has the lowest minimum wage of all G7 nations, in terms of purchasing power, and the third-highest poverty rate in the OECDLast modified on Sat 27 Feb 2021 12.44 ESTYou might wonder: how can the United States, the world’s wealthiest nation, be a low-wage economy? Of the 37 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the unofficial club of rich and near-rich nations, the US has of low-wage workers, with nearly one in four workers defined as low-wage. Only Latvia and Romania are worse....…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldThe US has the lowest minimum wage of all G7 nations, in terms of purchasing power, and the third-highest poverty rate in the OECDLast modified on Sat 27 Feb 2021 12.44 ESTYou might wonder: how can the United States, the world’s wealthiest nation, be a low-wage economy? Of the 37 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the unofficial club of rich and near-rich nations, the US has of low-wage workers, with nearly one in four workers defined as low-wage. Only Latvia and Romania are worse....WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldUnion federations in Rochester, Seattle and Massachusetts approved resolutions should Trump seek to subvert outcomeLast modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 22.19 ESTUS unions have begun discussing the idea of a general strike if refuses to accept an election result showing a Joe Biden victory.Such a move would be unprecedented in the modern era. There has not been a general strike in the United States since 1946 – and that was , California.The local labor federation in Rochester, New York, was the first union group to...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldUnion federations in Rochester, Seattle and Massachusetts approved resolutions should Trump seek to subvert outcomeLast modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 22.19 ESTUS unions have begun discussing the idea of a general strike if refuses to accept an election result showing a Joe Biden victory.Such a move would be unprecedented in the modern era. There has not been a general strike in the United States since 1946 – and that was , California.The local labor federation in Rochester, New York, was the first union group to...WW…

ByLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Steven Greenhouse was a New York Times reporter for 31 years and is author of . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. Read more articles at CNN. — It has long been confounding that President Donald Trump’s are Whites with only a high school education. This is bewildering because the Trump administration has repeatedly and systematically hurt America’s blue-collar workers and favored corporations over them.Although Trump ran in 2016 as a champion of the working class, he has undermined them again and again. His...…ByLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Steven Greenhouse was a New York Times reporter for 31 years and is author of . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. Read more articles at CNN. — It has long been confounding that President Donald Trump’s are Whites with only a high school education. This is bewildering because the Trump administration has repeatedly and systematically hurt America’s blue-collar workers and favored corporations over them.Although Trump ran in 2016 as a champion of the working class, he has undermined them again and again. His...WW…

Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo Protesters at a McDonald’s drive-through in Los Angeles earlier this monthMillions of workers—grocery clerks, bus drivers, fast-food cooks, delivery workers, and many others—felt newly appreciated when society suddenly deemed them essential. But for many of these essential workers, COVID-19 soon trained a spotlight on the many ways they were being shafted.The coronavirus crisis made them see many things all too clearly. They lacked paid sick days. Their employers often paid little heed to whether they were adequately protected from the pandemic. OSHA was doing...…Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo Protesters at a McDonald’s drive-through in Los Angeles earlier this monthMillions of workers—grocery clerks, bus drivers, fast-food cooks, delivery workers, and many others—felt newly appreciated when society suddenly deemed them essential. But for many of these essential workers, COVID-19 soon trained a spotlight on the many ways they were being shafted.The coronavirus crisis made them see many things all too clearly. They lacked paid sick days. Their employers often paid little heed to whether they were adequately protected from the pandemic. OSHA was doing...WW…

RelatedPolicies which were seen as wildly idealistic in 2016 are now widespread demands, thanks to Sanders’s movement.The United States is now primed for a slew of socialist policies.The final Democratic debate was a dispiriting affair for reasons that went far beyond the politics of it.Get daily news, in-depth reporting and critical analysis from the journalists, activists and thinkers who are working to improve our world..…RelatedPolicies which were seen as wildly idealistic in 2016 are now widespread demands, thanks to Sanders’s movement.The United States is now primed for a slew of socialist policies.The final Democratic debate was a dispiriting affair for reasons that went far beyond the politics of it.Get daily news, in-depth reporting and critical analysis from the journalists, activists and thinkers who are working to improve our world..WW…