Civil Rights
The Least Our City Can Do for LGBT/Q Workers
Yesterday we talked about how workers desperately need a national Just Cause law that supersedes and makes invalid all state-level...
Yesterday we talked about how workers desperately need a national Just Cause law that supersedes and makes invalid all state-level...
Here’s why it’s so critical to workers in Tennessee that Bernie’s labor program includes a national Just Cause law. Tennessee...
We at Northeast TN DSA want to express concern over the development of Johnson City. Not long ago there was...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s Office is Working with Volkswagon to Crush a Union Drive Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office has...
Nashville teachers protest again ahead of budget approval “Our wages have been basically frozen for a decade,” said Red4Ed organizer...
Tennessee Janitors Convince Target To Drop Dirty Cleaning Contractor Retail janitors organizing with a Tennessee worker center got Target to...
Nearly 1,500 Metro Schools employees call out in protest over pay The teacher “sick-out” comes just days after Mayor David...
Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory “They told me to ‘roll the dice and try again,’” says...
ETSU faculty and staff rally for adjunct pay raises Wednesday’s demonstration was part of ETSU’s third tongue-in-cheek “celebration” commemorating another...
Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Won’t Give Up the Fight for Unionization For the third time in five years, auto workers...
Delivery Workers Stage Protest Against Brooklyn Thai Restaurant for Alleged Stolen Wages A group of delivery workers in Brooklyn have...
Mountain Justice: Appalachian women fought for workers long before they fought for jobs Bessie Lou Cornett, a leader in promoting...
‘Whores But Organized’: Sex Workers Rally for Reform Jennifer Orellana, a trans woman and activist, said that, after coworkers’ bigotry...
Tennessee Teachers Could Be the Next to Strike Teachers living with anemic unions and deteriorating conditions in their schools have...
Workers Are Striking Again New figures show that the strike is back: 485,000 workers participated in major work stoppages last...
Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted Walmart is changing the job requirements for front-door greeters in a...
Workers detained in massive Tennessee raid sue ICE officers On Thursday, two advocacy groups and a law firm filed a...
Mexican workers strike, and win higher wages “If you don’t want people to go north looking for work, then pay...
One of the World’s Most Iconic Craft Breweries Is Unionizing Workers are organizing with the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union,...
Across the US, teachers protested and won. Now some accuse lawmakers of retaliating “These cynical bills were written with one...
Unpaid workers block CEPZ entrance The factory in Bangladesh’s Chattogram Export Processing Zone had been closed nine months ago and...
Los Angeles teachers end week-long strike after reaching ‘historic agreement’ The Los Angeles agreement includes class size reductions in all...
Make Detroit the engine of a Green New Deal“We must convert the Poletown plant into a publicly-owned green energy hub,...
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill announced today that Chancellor Carol L. Folt 1) will be stepping down after graduation...
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