U.S. Senate Moves to Pass Law Effectively Censoring Criticism of Israel
Opposing Israel Is NOT Anti-Jewish
By Revcom.us
The “Combatting BDS Act” is part of the very first bill moving through the United States Senate in 2019. It should be …
The EEOC in the Trump Era
EEOC litigation picked up in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018, and the agency just held a major public hearing in October to further its focus on workplace harassment.
By Paul R. Monsees (The National Law Review)
Despite having only three active members on its five-member Commission and having no General
Catholics Hold Majority in the U.S. Supreme Court
No entity is free from subjectivity—not even in the workplace—so an association of the Catholic faith held by the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court with their key rulings becomes problematic.
BROOKLYN (Workers World Today) – A little-known fact regarding the U.S. Supreme Court justices entails their religious stance—a majority are …
Comptroller Stringer: New Marijuana Revenues Need to Go to Communities Most Impacted by Cannabis Enforcement
An analysis done by the Comptroller’s Office in May estimated the cannabis market could result in $336 million in annual tax revenue for the city, on top of $436 million for the state.
Press Release (New York City Comptroller’s Office)
New analysis identifies neighborhoods hit hardest by enforcement policies and offers road map for building…
How to Write About Africa II
"If I was smart, I would have waited a few years and made an iPhone app: a little satirical story about how to write about Africa every day, interactive and adaptable, for ninety-nine cents." - Binyavanga Wainaina
By Binyavanga Wainaina (Bidoun.org)
The Revenge
Novelists, NGO workers, rock musicians, conservationists, students, and travel writers track down my email, asking: Would …
An Equitable Economy Requires Public Enterprises and Cooperatives
In New York’s metropolitan regions, it is worse than the national average of 62% of jobs not supporting a middle-class life: New York City, 67%; Nassau/Suffolk, 76%; Albany, 63%; Syracuse, 64%; Utica, 66%; Binghamton, 68%; Rochester, 64%; and Buffalo, 63%.
The mounting climate crisis is an existential threat that should concern us all. But millions of working-class New Yorkers are in crisis every day …
Worker Cooperatives: Keep the Full Fruits of Your Labor
In New York City, there are the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives and the Green Worker Cooperatives, which is based in the South Bronx and focused on assisting communities of immigrants and people of color.
BROOKLYN (Workers World Today) — When we work in a capitalist business, we produce more value than we receive in wages. It’s called exploitation. …
Fighting Wage Theft
Wage theft can even happen to unionized workers
BROOKLYN (Workers World Today) — National studies have shown that one-third of low-wage workers experience wage theft every week. Two-thirds have had wages stolen …
New Yorkers Need a Raise
The average American wage today ($22.65/hour) is less than it was in January 1973 ($23.68/hour) when adjusted for inflation. Over these last 45 years, productivity – the amount we produce per hour as workers – is up 217%. But our wages remain flat.
BROOKLYN (Workers World Today) – I’m a Teamster who had his pension cut 20% with the approval of the U.S Treasury Department just before …
The Green New Deal is an Economic Bill of Rights
"The Green Party has been campaigning for a Green New Deal that would be the fulfillment of the original New Deal’s aspiration for an Economic Bill of Rights – with added right to a clean and sustainable environment, particularly to address the mounting climate crisis." - Howie Hawkins, the 2018 Green Party candidate for Governor of New York.
BROOKLYN (Workers World Today) – It has been 84 years since President Franklin Roosevelt formed the Committee on Economic Security in June 1934 to …