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Across Industries, Minnesota Workers Are Harnessing Their Collective Power
Collective power is rising in Minnesota. Thousands of union members and a broad coalition of community groups banded together to demand better contracts, quality schools, housing and a livable planet....
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Toyota Workers at Critical Engine Plant Launch UAW Union Drive
Autoworkers at a Toyota engine plant in Troy, Missouri, have signed up 30 percent of their thousand coworkers to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) — a first at Toyota, the world’s largest automaker,...
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The Global Laws That Help Corporations Block Climate Action
However much the British government plays fast and loose with our future by treating climate change as a political football, there is a reality it can’t deny: climate action is necessary. That’s why,...
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Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety...
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Why is America Letting the Oil Industry Destroy the Planet?
The men who made the intentional decision to murder my father are long dead; the men and women who today are plotting to render much of our beautiful planet uninhabitable are very much with us… When my...
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Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a direct hit from a container ship as large as the...
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Wall Street Greed, Not Worker Pay, Is Making Your Uber Ride More Expensive
If you’ve taken an Uber ride recently, you’ve probably noticed it cost a lot more than a few years ago. Why is that? We conducted the largest-ever study of rideshare fares to find out, and discovered a...
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Uber Says Raising Driver Pay Causes High Fares. Cities Aren’t Buying It.
If you’ve taken an Uber ride recently, you’ve probably noticed it cost a lot more than a few years ago. Why is that? We conducted the largest-ever study of rideshare fares to find out, and discovered a...
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U.S. Smear Campaign Against AMLO Backfires: Hated by Media, Loved in Polls
As Mexico prepares for its next presidential election in June, the U.S. corporate-owned media is working overtime to smear the outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his popular...
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The For-Profit Nursing Home Scam
Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The...
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Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have...
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Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
The average U.S. taxpayer was forced to contribute more to militarized programs than to Medicare and Medicaid combined in 2023, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the National Priorities...
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Big Oil is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials to Kill Climate Litigation
At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for...
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Why Are Politicians Still Courting the Nefarious Fossil Fuel Lobby?
From March 18 to 22, 2024, the oil and gas industry held its major annual conference, CERAWeek, in Houston, Texas. The conference speakers included the usual rogues’ gallery of fossil fuel CEOs from...
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Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First...
Claire Chang and Steve Buckley knew it wasn’t going to be easy. But the two retail workers-turned-union organizers had been heartened by progress made during the first year of contract negotiations...
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Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving — and Workers Writhing
How do you know when you can finally rate as certifiably super rich? One simple test: You can look at the menu that greeted the over 100 wealthy souls who gathered earlier this month at the Palm Beach...
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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
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Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
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Whose Side Are You on, the People or the Polluters?
It’s well known that Republicans are “friendly” to corporations. But, as Montana’s top elected officials, Gov. Greg Gianforte and Attorney General Austin Knudsen, increasingly side with the polluters,...
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How Reaganomics Fueled America’s Homelessness Crisis
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of...
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Why People of Ecuador Were Right to Keep the Corporate Courts Out
The people of Ecuador have given a resounding NO to the return of secretive, foreign corporate courts suing the Ecuadorian state for democratic decisions. In a referendum held last week, Ecuador voted...
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Organizing the South: We Look Back To Move Ahead
The significance of the landslide victory by the United Auto Workers (UAW) at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN cannot be overstated. One of the greatest sources of hope for the labor movement in...
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Amazon Is Holding Special Union-Busting Seminars for Workers
Workers are being told: ‘A union is a business, just like Amazon.’ Amazon union busters are threatening workers with the loss of their jobs if they unionise. At the vast warehouse in Coventry, known as...
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UK Professor Condemns Own University Over Collaboration With Oil Giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash. Ian Williams, professor in applied environmental...
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Local News Is Vital: Can We Survive the Climate Crisis Without It?
Local news has its finger on the pulse of our communities. When city council acts (or acts up), when disaster strikes, when corruption or scandal needs to be scrutinized, local news steps up. From our...
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11,000% Return: Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall...
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to...
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‘Tick Tock’: Daimler Truck Workers Use Strike Threat to Win Big
North Carolina heavy truck and school bus manufacturing workers won 25 percent pay increases and ended wage tiers after an energetic contract campaign and strike threat against Daimler Truck. The...
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Big Oil and Civilization Don’t Mix
Prologue On May 10, 2024, my friend Jay Jones, emeritus professor of biology at La Verne University, invited me to see a documentary he was presenting to his students and colleagues. The documentary,...
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Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness to Fight Unions
Workers in Towson, Maryland, have earned the distinction of becoming the first Apple retail workers in the nation to vote to strike over failed union negotiations with their employer. The approximately...
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How Solidarity Triumphs Over Corporate Greed
Management at Amfuel tried to bully Jo Tucker and her 200 co-workers—most of them Black women, a number of them single moms—into accepting dozens of unnecessary concessions in a new contract. For four...
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