March 6, 2024
Background: Attacks on joint-employer standards are attacks on low-wage workers and their ability to organize. Wealthy CEOs, their lobbyists, and politicians on the right have attacked joint-employer standards for decades. During the 1980s, a conservative National Labor Relations Board whittled the definition of joint-employer status to benefit corporations and dissolve… Read More»
Tags: congress, Elon Musk, house of representatives, Jeff Bezos, NLRA, NLRB, Trader Joe's, US Senate
April 7, 2017
Today, working people lost a huge fight when the Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until recently, a significant number of Democratic senators remained publicly undecided on how they would vote on Gorsuch. Progressive groups, including civil rights organizations, women’s rights groups, democracy advocates, clean money… Read More»
Tags: Civil Rights, Corporate Accountability, corporate CEOs, Democracy, Gorsuch, Supreme Court, US Senate, Womens Rights, Workers Rights
