Working Life

I know—you’re shocked, shocked to hear that major drug companies are dodging taxes & stashing billions in tax havens around the world. Oxfam’s Robbie Silverman joins me to talk about the organization’s blockbuster report, and how Big Pharma’s Gang of Four is hurting millions of people. Then, it’s over to the nation’s Capitol where the […]

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We’re not resting in the low-key week between Xmas and the New Year. I chat up Marcus Ferrell, who was Bernie Sanders’ main man organizing African American voters, who is now in the fray himself, running for a state house seat in Arizona. And across the country from sunny Arizona, over in the much chillier […]

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Please, put out a red alert. Andrew Cuomo has been kidnapped. The man who occupies the governor’s office is a body double. Seriously, where has the guy gone who was a shill for big business, a guy who took pleasure attacking unions and seemed to like only tax breaks for the wealthy? The guy who […]

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A confluence of two ideas: the Democrats are not being serious about hiking the minimum wage AND Bernie Sanders makes a more formal presidential campaign announcement today. These are connected ideas.

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I’m not here to give too much of a wet-kiss to Facebook, which, to my way of thinking, plays a misleading game about its “social networking” process (i.e., its algorithm requires that you basically have to buy ads to actually move content to your own “Friends”). That said, today, at least it gets credit for pushing at least some pay standards higher–and showing, yet again, how Democrats are pathetically behind the energy in the streets on pay.

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Just a moment to pause and update everyone: going back to 1968, workers have lost more than $357 billion because of the robbery due to the stagnant minimum wage. Here’s the clock.

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The problem with press releases and economic gorilla dust is no one bothers to do the math. So, Wal-Mart will get a lot of hugs and free good press from announcing that it will raises workers’ wages–but the truth is it’s still a sham. People working for Wal-Mart will still live in poverty. The only positive part of the announcement–though unintended–is how Wal-Mart’s announcement shows how pathetic the pre-election (is it even still on the agenda?) White House-Democratic Party’s signature minimum wage proposal is.

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Today, as many people know, fast food workers went on strike, marched and some participated in acts of civil disobedience in support of a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Here are some pics from New York. PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN–EITHER FROM NYC OR OTHER PLACES!   Going to jail for justice Signs of the times: McDonald’s needs […]

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A louder rumble is brewing in the fight to end poverty–also known as the fight to hike the minimum wage. Filling some jails is on the agenda…

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Tick, tick, tick, tick…every minute that goes by is another minute workers are being robbed–in particular, those people forced to work for the slave-like minimum wage. And if you looked back just five years, there’s a price tag to that robbery: over $300 billion.

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