Fast Food Workers Strike Across The Nation
...kes in six cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Seattle. Workers are also complaining about working conditions, stolen wages and the need for collective bargaining. All the [...]
Faculty Join Fast Food in the Fight for $15
...lear yesterday that they are fed up with their second-tier status. This isn’t the first mass mobilization of adjuncts either. Adjuncts across the country participated in a National [...]
Fast-food Workers Ready To Escalate Wage Demands
...ur wages and a union, said Kendall Fells, organizing director of the national effort and a representative of the Service Employees International Union. The union has been providing financial [...]
The Pacific Trade Deal, Fast Track, And The 2014 Elections
...imate regulations. “They want to use these agreements to protect their investments in shale oil and shale gas and to continue to ‘frack’ and to continue to export [...]
No Fast Track To TPP: Fix NAFTA First
...make things worse. The poor economy, decline of the middle class and incredible level of inequality have raised awareness that these trade deals have hurt us. Even with a near-complete media [...]
Fast Track To The Corporate Wish List
...dustry, TPP allows for dramatic expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, obtained through practices like fracking, with automatic approval of all export permits to TPP countries [...]
Nurses Sound A Code Blue In D.C. On Fast Track & TPP
...o, Deborah Burger, RN, Jean Ross, RN “The TPP would require us to allow food imports if the exporting country claims that its health and safety laws are [...]
McDonald’s Franchise Owners: Fast Food Giant “Facing Its Final Days”
...marketing schemes that have been implemented recently to slow the bleeding of younger customers as they choose healthier, more local options en masse. As Anti-Media also reported in June, [...]
Rally For Good Jobs On The Fast Food Supply Chain
...y December. Accordingly, AWPPW and its allies are planning two protests in Seattle as part of an international day of action to fight back against poverty wages, cuts in benefits, and unsafe [...]
Congress Voices Bipartisan Opposition To Fast Track
...8220;This isn’t a left-right issue; it’s a right-wrong issue,” said Citizens Trade Campaign Executive Director Arthur Stamoulis. “All Members of Congress should add [...]
Six Ways TPP Opponents Have Won, Even As Fast Track Advances
...oncessions on the secrecy of the text. Photo by Ted Majdosz I tried to stay emotionally distanced from this one. It didn’t work. When the White House and Republican leaders got the votes [...]
Trans-Pacific Partnership: “We Will Not Obey”
...be included. And the agreements would include enforceable standards. Negotiations would be transparent and democratic. There would be no more need for secrecy and forcing agreements through [...]
The Fast Against the Firings
...place drastically from the Bush and Clinton eras. In the last two years alone, thousands of janitors have been fired in Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco, thousands of garment workers in [...]
Appeals Board Upholds Minimum Wage Hike To $15
Above Photo: From PopularResistence.org. For Fast Food Workers The state Industrial Board of Appeals has upheld the planned increase to a $15 minimum wage for the state’s [...]
Workers Strike Back From Boston To Chicago
...art of the National Day of Action to Fight for $15. The campaign seeks higher hourly wages, including for workers at fast-food restaurants and airports. Mark [...]