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Court Blocks Hikes Sought by Massachusetts Health Insurance Corps.
A Massachusetts court yesterday blocked premium increases—some as high as 40 percent—sought by six state health insurers. The action by the Suffolk Superior Court was the second time the insurance...
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Foundry Workers Strike to Save Their Healthcare
Berkeley, Calif.—A strike of more than 450 workers in one of the largest foundries on the west coast brought production to a halt Sunday night, at Pacific Steel Castings. The work stoppage, which...
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Why You Should Know Your Rights Under FMLA
There is a common misconception that the Family and Medical Leave Act only include provisions that apply to pregnancy and childbirth. In fact, there are many scenarios that working people face which...
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Walmart’s Black Thursday Hits Paducah
James Vetato planned to spend Black Friday wearing out shoe leather on a picket line at the Southside Walmart in Paducah, Ky. “Now I’ll be there Thanksgiving night, too,” Vetato said. “Walmart has...
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Mad at Obama, Papa John’s Will Cut Hours To Rob Employees of Healthcare
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter is angry about Obamacare, and he’s taking it out on his employees. The healthcare reform law mandates that, by 2014, employees who work more than 30 hours per week at...
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Why Picket Lines Matter
I spent so much time on picket lines as a kid that when I thought my dad’s rules were too strict, I would run to build a sign on a stick and try to talk the neighbor kids into marching around the...
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Oh Great, More CEOs Telling Us We Need to Cut Social Security and Medicare...
As if we didn’t already have enough on our plates (having to fend off attacks from the “Fix the Debt” CEOs), now there’s another group of CEOs, the Business Roundtable, telling us we need to...
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“Just Cause”: Isn’t It Time For All Workers to Have Some Job Security?
During World War Two, employers were prohibited from raising wages because of wartime Wage and Price controls. With labor in short supply, employers and union leaders sought ways around the government...
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New England Grocery Unions Face Grueling Obamacare Test (Update)
UPDATE: UFCW union leaders in New England announced a tentative settlement with Stop & Shop March on 4, following marathon negotiating sessions over the previous few day. Details of the settlement...
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Philadelphia Falls One Vote Short of Sick Days for Over 180,000 Workers
With 12 votes needed, only 11 members of the Philadelphia City Council were willing to override Mayor Michael Nutter’s veto of the sick leave bill. For the second time in three years, corporate...
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The Most Injurious Job in America
While hospitals are better known for treating injuries than causing them, statistics show that for workers, hospitals can be a dangerous place. A new report put out by Public Citizen found that in...
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Caring for Workers Who Care for Our Loved Ones
For many seniors, growing older means facing new kinds of stress—such as fragile health, a tight budget on a fixed income, or the travails of living alone. And for the people who care for the aging,...
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They Just Didn't Know How to Take the Next Steps
Roberta Kenner works as a registrar at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is a member of SEIU Local 1199. In recent months she worked as a lost-timer for her local union–helping...
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Nurse's Role Protecting Healthcare Law More Critical than Ever
It’s already October and we are in full swing organizing, educating and mobilizing for Election Day. I am sure many of you are too with so much hanging in the balance! Again, nurses find themselves in...
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The Right To Birth Control Just Won Its Most Significant Victory To Date In A...
Judge Jerry Smith is a deeply conservative judge. He once voted to allow a man to be executed despite the fact that the man’s lawyer slept through much of his trial. He’s a reliable vote against...
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If you have a preexisting health condition, don’t even think about leaving...
If President-elect Trump follows through on his campaign promises, millions of individuals-immigrants, religious minorities, people of color-face a very grim four years. One of the worst hit groups...
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#CampusResistance rises today at colleges and universities nationwide
Students and faculty at America’s colleges and universities stand at the confluence of many of the most troubled waters springing from the Trump administration and its corporate-driven, deeply...
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Still Getting 'It' Wrong
On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy gained 235,000 payroll slots in February and upped its estimates for December and January by another 9,000 jobs. Over the...
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The Looming Writers Strike Is About Much More Than What’s On TV
People say we’re living in the golden age of television. Fans enjoy more high-quality choices than at any time in history. But this could all grind to a halt if the Writers Guild of America (WGA)...
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A Winning Week for Corporations and Wall Street—Paid for by Your Health and...
Corporations and Wall Street won big last week, and working people will pay a high price for it. Here are three things Congress did for Big Business that will harm working people’s health care and...
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