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The human cost of Doritos: Claims of 84-hour work weeks and stagnant wages at Frito-Lay factory where workers are on strike Alex Woodward © AP Ron Sadler, a 32-year employee at Frito-Lay’s facility in Topeka, Kansas, joins a union strike. - AP As of midnight on 5 July, hundreds of employees at one of the nation’s largest snack manufacturers went on strike, demanding better workplace protections and an end to forced overtime that has pushed Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kans...

Elected. i said to one of them, why is it that it always seems like black women have to lead and her answer was, youre welcome. and i thought to myself, you know, as you was watching this yesterday, there is the long term plan, right, for them. they know theyre not going to stop winning a bunch offices in the deep south next week or next month. but there is an urgency to this voting rights fight right now. so in the immediate of it, what needs to get done and what can be done realistically? wher...

Trudeau is rewarding Yussuff for his services in suppressing the class struggle, and supporting the multi-billion dollar bailout of the banks and big business during the coronavirus pandemic.

The legislation would continue classifying these workers as independent contractors, prohibiting strikes and other work actions.

WASHINGTON—The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement—the three-way trade pact that replaced jobs-destroying NAFTA—is an example of pro-worker trade, crafted with a lot of worker input, the Democratic Biden administration emphasizes and will continue to do so.

Who would have thought the Democrat agenda would be stalled by... three Democrats?

It’s time to hold employers accountable. It’s time to pass the PRO Act.

On the leftward shift of the United States of America

PRO Act hurts workers, threatens economic recovery Arizona’s economy is recovering slowly but surely, but there’s still a long road ahead before local businesses and industries are back on firm footing. Lawmakers in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., should be working to pass commonsense solutions that help strengthen American businesses and put folks back to work.  Steve Trussell Instead, some in Washington seem to be more focused on passing a pro-union agenda at the expense of workers and bus...

Biden’s infrastructure goals a power grab To call President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan an infrastructure bill requires a very generous definition of the term. Or as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand apparently thinks, anything can be infrastructure. Of the $2.25 trillion allocated in this bill, only 6% goes toward what most Americans consider infrastructure. Instead of filling potholes, Biden’s bill is loaded to the brim with expansions of federal power, erosion of states’ rights, ...