Workers Rights

"There is no reason why the standard of living of these hard-working Americans should decline," wrote Sanders in a letter.

An estimated 60 percent of large employers use workplace monitoring tools, some of which can be used to chill organizing.

People online are divided as to whether parents should take precedent when it comes to booking time off during the festive season.

"As always in our Union, the members will have the final say on the contract," the BCTGM union's president said of the upcoming vote on the deal.

"The COVID vaccine or test mandate should be broader in scope to also apply to employers with less than 100 employees," a union leader said.

The FTC said that one driver would receive over $28,000, while the average amount of 139,507 settlement checks and 1,621 PayPal payments was $422.

"It's been disappointing to see Starbucks working overtime to try to stop us from organizing, but today's decision is a big win...," Michele Eisen said.

Left on the drive-thru speaker, the note was signed "the manager who's had enough!"

"Amazon will tirelessly fight against us for it, but that's a fight we're ready for," the Amazon Union Labor told Newsweek.

The restaurant chain famed for its tight uniforms has backtracked after female employees said they would rather quit than wear the company's skimpy new shorts.

The Gig Workers Collective is working on bringing back incentives Instacart has dropped, like the commission pay model and a 10 percent default tip.

"If we take a stand here for ourselves...it's going to make a difference for the whole manufacturing industry. Let's do it," a John Deere employee said.

"God bless this great nation," one person commented sarcastically, adding: "Anyone else feel like we're living in hell?"

Low job take-up is not a result of a labor shortage, the former labor secretary argues, but American workers demanding better wages and childcare support.

Business with Evergrande accounts for 90 percent of Guo Hui's business. Unpaid dues from the company have put his business on the verge of bankruptcy.

Union workers at Nabisco are on strike and people online are sharing images of its products on store shelves—claiming consumers are boycotting the company.

America's workers are recognizing something fundamental: there is promise and power in coming together.

Roz Brewer, the company CEO, said in a statement that raising workers' wages is "the right thing to do."

I am far from being the only Amazon delivery driver whose life was upended by the company's questionable use of these algorithms.

"It's like, they pulled the rug out from under us now we've made them enough money"—sex workers explain OnlyFans' pornography ban will "cripple them".

Employees allege that the discrimination included death threats, consistent use of racial slurs, and vandalism of their personal property.

Five grillers at his steakhouse chain allege he avoided paying them overtime despite their weeks of 70-plus hours at locations in Miami, New York and Dallas.

The fast-food workers were protesting about the lack of air conditioning in their restaurant during the hot summer months.

The employee shared a snap of the typed-out letter sent to all workers, which included capital letters and bold font.

Da Leigh told Newsweek she quit after a day-and-a-half because she was "being denied basic human rights."

It is obvious to the American people: frontline workers who put themselves in harm's way to keep our country running deserve a seat at the bargaining table.

"Yes, Amazon workers did pay for this - with lower wages, union busting, a frenzied and inhumane workplace, and delivery drivers not having health insurance during a pandemic," the congresswoman tweeted.

Our economy is and should be moving away from tradition, and toward workers' freedom and empowerment.

"It's insensitive and negligent for city leadership to not understand how this would land on its Black and nonwhite employees," Dante King, co-founder of the Black Employee Alliance and Coalition Against Anti-Blackness, said.

Mega-corporations nowadays avoid public scrutiny for their treatment of workers by adopting a woke social agenda.