Uber, TaskRabbit, Airbnb, and other companies are putting capitalist ventures in the hands of the consumer–but how much do these companies really benefit American workers? According to veteran journalist Steven Hill (Europe’s Promise), the answer is not at all. Hill argues that, more than anything, these new tech-based, easy-money, sharing enterprises are doing great harm. […]
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WA State Rep. Gael Tarleton at Take Back Your Time Day!
Washington State Representative Gael Tarleton speaks the Seattle TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY picnic about why she introduced a paid vacation bill in the Washington legislature and the need to protect the rights of working Americans and the middle class. CELEBRATION Picnic at Gasworks Park, for Take Back Your Time Day! –and the 75th Anniversary […]
Corporate welfare for Microsoft
For more info see, Microsoft’s tax avoidance schemes: national and in Washington State.
Making Bread While Baking Bread — A Celebration of Labor Day
One of my great-grandfathers, Rudolf Leo Schirra Sr., was born in Rammstein (no joke), Germany in 1876. He emigrated to the US in 1889 and for the rest of his life lied about being born in Chicago, apparently to avoid immigration questions. Okay, so why care? Well, Rudolf Senior was a labor organizer from about […]
Boeing loyal to its Russian investments
Boeing is at it again, eating its own in Puget Sound. The company will be laying off engineers in Washington and building a new model with dispersed “centers of excellence” around the country and the world, which is corporate-speak for hiring workers at lower salaries, no union protection, and less understanding of the intricacies of […]
May Day March and Rally for Workers and Immigrant Rights
Rally with thousands of workers and immigrant rights supporters. The event will focus on standing together with all workers regardless of race, class, gender, sexual identity and documentation status. Join with Radical Women participants who will be marching with the Libertad para Nestora/Freedom for Nestora Committee. Look for our signs and banner! Thursday May 1st, […]
Tennessee Republicans are Anti-Business and Anti-Union
The VW worker unionization vote was the dirtiest union election of the 21st Century and all the dirty tactics were coming from outside anti-union political forces. Without the intimidation and lies of elected Tennessee Republicans along with billionaire financed national Right Wing groups, the union would have won the union representation vote. Outside groups financed […]
Watch: Lawmakers rally in support of paid sick days
This week, lawmakers in the state House stood with Washington’s working families and passed the legislature’s first paid sick days bill. The bill’s prime sponsor, Representative Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma), along with her colleagues shared rousing testimony in support of paid sick and safe days. Check out video of their floor speeches below. Representative Laurie Jinkins […]
Time to take care of our own: Let’s pull ourselves into the 21st century, America
The United States is one of four countries in the world that doesn’t offer new moms paid maternity leave. Pakistan has better maternity leave policies than us. Now, I can be an American exceptionalist as good as the next girl, but are you kidding me? Just two months ago, the FAMILY Act was introduced to […]