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Indian Farmers Continue Historic Protests After 250 Million People Rise Up Against Modi's Neoliberal Policies

Members of the Communist Party of India protest as part of a nationwide strike on November 26, 2020. (Photo: Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

Google Illegally Surveilled, Interrogated, and Fired Workers Who Tried to Organize, NLRB Says

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Former Google employee Laurence Berland, who was fired by the company in 2019 for labor organizing, says he feels vindicated by the NLRB's complaint, which comes "at a time when we're seeing the power of a handful of tech billionaires consolidate control over our lives and our society." (Photo: Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"For a company with the slogan 'don't be evil,' the findings are pretty damning."

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In Open Letter to Jeff Bezos, Over 400 Lawmakers From Around the World Join #MakeAmazonPay Campaign

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Amazon workers and community allies demonstrate during a protest organized by New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York in front of the Jeff Bezos' Manhattan residence in New York on December 2, 2020. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

"We stand ready to act in our respective legislatures to support the movement...

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After $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for Rich, Trump Backs GOP Pay Freeze for Federal Workers as Pandemic Rages

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Members and supporters of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) participate in a protest in the Hart Senate Office Building Atrium on February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Unions representing federal workers have denounced the proposed pay freeze as "...

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Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa line up to get lunch on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California.

'Utterly Arbitrary and Unlawful': Farmworker Groups Sue to Block Trump Wage Freeze

Activists of Sammilito Garments Sramik Federation (Combined Garments Workers Federation) march for fair wages and union rights for all Amazon supply chain workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 27, 2020. (Photo: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Progressive Coalition Stages Global Black Friday Protests to 'Make Amazon Pay'

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a primary negotiator for the Republican side, speaks at the U.S. Capitol on February 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

'Cruel Slap in the Face': Senate GOP Quietly Pushing Pay Freeze for Federal Workers Amid Deadly Pandemic

Members and supporters of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) participate in a "Stand Up, Stand In" protest in the Hart Senate Office Building Atrium as part of the 2020 Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization Conference on February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. AFGE members protested to raise awareness on how the Trump administration is hurting federal employees through various policies.

Leading House Dems Demand 'Full Accounting' on Trump Order Allowing Purge of Federal Workforce

Ahead of Thanksgiving, millions of families are in need of food assistance due to Covid-19 related layoffs and the expiration of federal unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and 649 other billionaires in the U.S. have amassed a combined $1 trillion in gains since the pandemic began in March 2020. (Photos: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket and Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Stock Market Soars and Billionaire Wealth Swells by $1 Trillion as Food Lines Stretch 'As Far As the Eye Can See'

Telfair Elementary School first grade teacher Ms. Gutierrez works with her students on February 8, 2019 in Pacoima, California. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

Defenders of US Public Schools Call on Biden to Ditch Trump's Disastrous Education Policies—and Obama's Too

As Retail Giants Enjoy Soaring Profits, Workers Demand Hazard Pay Amid Soaring Pandemic

Workers process meat at a Tyson Foods chicken plant. (Photo: Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images)

'This Is Depraved': Tyson Food Managers Accused of Betting on How Many of Their Workers Would Get Covid-19

Protesters demand that billionaires pay their fair share during a July 17, 2020 demonstration in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Billionaire Bonanza Continues as Workers Pounded by Pandemic, Recession, and GOP Relief Refusal

People receive food at Thessalonica Christian Church during a distribution on October 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

'About to Be Catapulted Off a Cliff': Study Shows 12 Million Set to Lose Jobless Benefits After Christmas

Greenpeace Releases Far-Reaching 'Just Recovery Agenda' to Tackle Interlocking Crises of Inequality, Racial Injustice, Covid-19, and Climate Chaos

Reps. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis) have created a Labor Caucus in Congress. (Photos: Donald Norcross for Congress; Rep. Mark Pocan/Facebook)

Longtime Union Members Pocan and Norcross Announce Labor Caucus to Advocate for Workers in Congress

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Economic Policy Institute

Congress Must Urgently Provide $3 Trillion of Fiscal Relief to Stop the Economic Bleeding and Build a Strong Recovery

Institute for Policy Studies

New Report Finds that a "Delinquent Dozen" Pandemic Profiteers Failed Essential Workers and Forced Them to Risk Their Health, While Still Profiting Immensely...

Food & Water Watch

Tyson Must Fire Executive Vice Chairman Noel White, Who Was CEO While Plant Managers Bet on Employees’ Lives

Senator Bernie Sanders

Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, McDonald's, Other Large Corporations, GAO Finds...

Institute for Policy Studies

Report: "Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health" Finds Essential Workers Continue to Suffer as US Billionaires Gain Almost $1 Trillion Under Pandemic...

Congressman Mark Pocan

Pocan, Norcross Announce Labor Caucus

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Jim Hightower, Jane Kleeb

Make USDA 'The People’s Department' Again

Ellen Brown

Why the Fed Needs Public Banks

Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett

America's Past Has Shown the Power of 'We.' Here's How We Can Revive It

Heidi Shierholz

Unless Congress Acts, Millions of Americans Will Soon Be Left With No Safety Net

Janie Grice

We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights

Jim Hightower

Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?

Roger Bybee

Trump Will Be Evicted, but Trumpism Lives On

Lawrence Mishel, Jori Kandra

Over Last 30 Years, Wages for Top 1% Soared by 160% While Wages of Bottom 90% Actually Went Down

Robert Freeman

The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan.

Paul Buchheit

Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers