Working Life

The individual who will occupy the Oval Office is putting in place people in the government who will do unimaginable damage to the country and the planet. In this week’s podcast, I speak with CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin about the outlook for the U.S. Supreme Court and the real possibility that the conservative […]

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Jonathan goes digging into the world of the global sweatshop, talking with global workers rights advocate Shawna Bader-Blau on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Bangladesh factory fire that killed 110 garment workers and injured thousands more. We also talk Just Transition–how workers and communities will be looked after as we transition from […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ spokesman, Michael Briggs, on Monday issued the following statement: “It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer. “Secretary […]

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First, to print as a lead-in, Bernie’s statement from last night, which perhaps people have seen but in case: “I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her victories tonight, and I look forward to issue-oriented campaigns in the 14 contests to come. “I am proud that we were able to win a resounding victory tonight in Rhode […]

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Bernie was on this back in 2008, long before he decided to run for president—this would be in contrast to other candidates who, for the sake of winning votes, all of a sudden discover a new-found “caring” for the struggles of workers and non-white communities. The video says it all: A tidbit from the video […]

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f you want to know why a political revolution is necessary (and why the status quo’s most intellectually fraudulent campaign in recent Democratic primaries is such a threat to working people), you need only check out this new report from our friends at the Economic Policy Institute. Wal-Mart (that would be the board the status […]

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Yesterday, I spoke before a group of Democrats in Reno, Nevada on behalf of Bernie and, at one point, someone asked me about why the biggest labor unions are not choosing to endorse Bernie. My first point was simple: it’s a crass and ugly if understandable choice—the union leaders, many of whom I know, understand […]

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It’s where the entire labor movement should be: Bernie Sanders has landed his biggest labor endorsement to date: the American Postal Workers Union, or APWU. The group represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees from across all 50 states. The APWU executive board announced its choice early this morning. And “Politics as usual has […]

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In the roll-call of truly horrendous Village transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) a standout has been Jackie Calmes. And, today, she keeps her reputation intact with a truly awful piece about the Trans Pacific Partnership. To begin, Calmes has a long and storied career at just gobbling up government nonsense and spitting […]

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One of the great tactics used by companies to rip off workers–and there are many–is to pretend like the Big Dog at the top (say, McDonald’s) doesn’t actually directly employ workers who labor down in the distributed workplaces that clearly have a relationship–through franchises, in particular, in the fast food industry–with the Big Dog. It’s […]

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