"This surplus is a historic opportunity to invest in the idea that our state can prepare every student for a successful life, no matter their race or where they were born."
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
In A State Agenda for America’s Workers, NELP and EARN outline policies that governors may pursue using their executive authority—for example, through their state labor departments. Others are recommendations for legislative action to protect workers.
The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.
Groups like One Wisconsin Now have claimed the last-minute push by the GOP-controlled Legislature to change the upcoming presidential primary date and neuter Gov.-elect Tony Evers influence over his state agencies is an assault on democracy.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) announced a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to raise wages and labor conditions for workers like Sanluis. The legislation is expected to be introduced when the new Congress convenes next year.
"It is horrifying that Acosta would be a member of good society again, let alone in the line of succession to the presidency."
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South