Jobs, jobs, jobs

Rhode Island activists demand local job funding

Providence, Rhode Island Oct. 19 — “Organize! Mobilize! Fightback!” The sound of the tenor drumbeat reverberated up the sweeping staircase…

November 7, 2022

Denying health crisis won’t save jobs

June 21 – For the thirteenth week in a row, the number of initial claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

June 25, 2020

United protest wants good jobs at a fair wage

New York — Carpenters, car wash workers, college professors, janitors, fast food workers and many others came together Dec. 6 in…

December 13, 2012

Why we need to demand a shorter work week

In February, the Detroit Free Press reported that the United Auto Workers union was preparing “arguments over the thirty-hour week,…

November 16, 2012

Protests hit poverty wages

As part of a national day of action against poverty wages, over a hundred low-wage workers and their supporters took…

August 1, 2012

‘Jobs not jails!’

On July 17, protesters were stopped from marching to the gates of Graterford Prison, outside of Philadelphia, by police, who…

July 25, 2012

Unemployed march demands full benefits

Oakland, Calif. - Unemployed workers gathered July 11 in Oakland to protest cuts in unemployment benefits, demanding their reinstatement and…

July 23, 2012

Jobs & a dying horse

Does it bother the spin doctors for either the Obama or the Romney campaigns that their job is to invent…

July 17, 2012