Human needs before profits

Case of the missing workers

Politicians, pundits and the corporate media are strenuously patting themselves on the back for the new “official” April unemployment rate…

May 9, 2014

Attack intensifies against Detroit retirees

April 26 — The attack on retired city of Detroit workers’ pensions intensifies. Ever since the filing for bankruptcy by…

May 1, 2014

All out for May Day!

Teresa Gutierrez, right, co-coordinator of the May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, with other coalition activists at an…

April 29, 2014

U.S. bosses hoard $2 trillion overseas

Hundreds of U.S. corporations’ profits that are held in overseas bank accounts nearly doubled between 2008 and 2013, when the…

April 28, 2014

The meaning of low-wage worker struggle

And the need for an independent revolutionary pole in new working-class movement The nationwide strikes of workers at places like…

April 19, 2014

Automation threatens 47 percent of U.S. jobs

A wakeup call for labor movement and working class Two scholars at Oxford University have made an exhaustive study of…

April 17, 2014

Judge says Detroiters owe banks $85 million

The ruling on April 11 in the Detroit municipal bankruptcy by Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes awarded an $85…

April 17, 2014

National Urban League report illustrates decline in employment and wages for African Americans, Latinos/as

Even though the administration of President Barack Obama has said that the Great Recession has been over for four years,…

April 16, 2014

$15 and a union!

Philadelphia -- Low-wage workers and their supporters gathered outside a McDonald’s restaurant here on April 3 for the second time…

April 10, 2014

MLK & jobs

On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while showing solidarity with…

April 9, 2014