Year: 2018

Across Canada and the U.S., Indigenous women can often be seen at marches wearing red shawls or scarves, sometimes holding red dresses aloft. Indigenous people have formed dozens of organizations and organized walks and marches […]

Tijuana, Mexico Sometimes as workers we forget that we’re part of a large family of working people around the world. But it’s the truth. And when your family is under attack, you want to do […]

People around the world were outraged by video and photos showing small children and their families fleeing clouds of tear gas on the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 25. U.S. Border Patrol […]

One hundred thousand schoolchildren in New York City are homeless. Lead paint contaminates thousands of apartments in the city’s housing projects. But both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Gov. […]

First, a little bit about my background. I worked at a garment sweatshop when I was a teenager, piecing together pockets on raincoats, and later on a General Motors assembly line installing power window regulators […]

General Electric had $122 billion in revenues last year. But in June it was kicked off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. GE’s replacement was Walgreens Boots Alliance. A few decades ago, Walgreens was just a […]

GE’s mess isn’t really the result of faulty boardroom decisions. Capitalism’s inner workings — whose laws were discovered by Karl Marx — guaranteed it. Why did Jack Welch and his successor Jeffrey Immelt bet the […]