Fox News Host Sues Roger Ailes Over Sexual Harassment
Gretchen Carlson, a longtime Fox News host, has filed a lawsuit against Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes alleging that he made unwanted sexual advances and then sabotaged her career when she refused....
View ArticleMassachusetts Becomes First State Ever To Ban Employers From Asking For...
Massachusetts has leapfrogged over all other states to pass the most robust equal pay law in the country. The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective...
View ArticleJob Growth Stays Steady While Wage Growth Fails To Take Off
The economy added 151,000 jobs in August while the unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.9 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 180,000...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Accused of Ignoring Rampant Sexual Harassment in its Restaurants
When CyCei Monae began her job as a cook and cashier at a McDonald’s in Flint, Michigan, she says she was nervous. “I was brand new, a little shy,” she said in a call with the media on Wednesday. She...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Jr. Thinks Women Who are Harassed at Work Should Stay Home
Multiple women have now come forward with stories of being harassed and assaulted by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump while working with or for him. According to his son, if they didn’t...
View ArticleMega AT&T Merger Would put Clinton’s Trust Busting Promises to the Test
It was just weeks ago that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laid out an ambitious new agenda to combat corporate concentration with antitrust policies. Now a giant new merger looks...
View ArticleTrump abandons campaign promise to penalize outsourcing, offers tax breaks...
Everyone is trying to stop Carrier from moving jobs to Mexico. Earlier this year, the air conditioner and furnace giant, along with its parent company United Technologies, announced that it planned to...
View ArticleA nationwide campaign to take back cities from the corporations that rule them
On June 20, the Partnership for Working Families, a national network of advocacy organizations, announced the launch of a brand new campaign dubbed “We Make This City.” It consists of 10...
View ArticleWhy labor is holding its applause for Michigan’s latest ‘workers’ rights’...
On September 5, the Michigan legislature seemed to take bold steps toward improving working conditions for its constituents: It passed legislation that would guarantee workers the right to earn paid...
View ArticleAmericans work too much already
The Save American Workers Act would do nothing of the sort, but it would force many employees to log more hours. The post Americans work too much already appeared first on NationofChange.
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