“Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers,” said UAW president Shawn Fain. Posturing as a friend and ally of the working class, former President Donald Trump is planning to travel to Detroit next week amid […]
Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year. As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs […]
“This administration will not stop until it takes away all workers’ rights to form and join a union.” President Donald Trump on Thursday quietly issued a memo granting Defense Secretary Mark Esper the power to abolish collective bargaining rights for the Defense Department’s 750,000 civilian workers, a move unions decried as part of the administration’s far-reaching […]
ANCHORAGE: The Anchorage NAACP is calling on Alaska Republican Party Chairman Peter Goldberg to retract comments about slavery made at a party meeting on Saturday. A speaker at the meeting said, “African Americans on public assistance are subject to a new-age form of slavery.” These comments followed a speech by Dan Sullivan, who previously created […]