McDonald's Fight For $15 workers are demanding an end to sexual harassment on the job. Angel Mitchell, a Chicago McDonald's worker says when management fails to stop it a union can.
[Angel Mitchell]: "If we can't get a response from store managers then we have our union rep to protect us."
The world now knows that Donald Trump bragged in 2005 about sexually assaulting women by groping them. That recording surfaced Friday and Trump admits it.
[Donald Trump]: “I did try and f**k her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch. Couldn't get there and she was married.
I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. I don't even wait.
And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy."
California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.
It’s been a decade since California passed our last statewide school bond to repair and upgrade our public schools. That’s 10 years of students from kindergarten to college attempting to learn in schools crumbling around them. Libraries, science labs, classrooms – you name it – California schools are in dire need of an upgrade.
Even though they are making record profits Aetna and United Healthcare are leaving the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
Nurse Talk Radio Healthcare In America correspondent Donna Smith says in Aetna's case it looks like retribution for a federal government probe into a proposed big merger. The government is looking into the merger to make sure antitrust laws are not being broken.
A Newsweek investigation has found that in two of Donald Trump's last three construction projects he used Chinese steel and aluminum instead of buying U.S. steel and aluminum from companies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Even as Trump uses Chinese steel and aluminum he's trying to sell workers on the idea that he's supposedly on their side when it comes to trade with China.
HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP – POSITIONS AND ACTIONS:
THE RIGHT TO STAND UP TOGETHER AT WORK:
HILLARY CLINTON
Believes in the fundamental right of working people to organize and negotiate together for better wages and working conditions.
DONALD TRUMP
Refuses to recognize a union election at his hotel in Las Vegas and his management allegedly assaulted a worker trying to organize.
“RIGHT TO WORK” WHICH ATTACKS THE STRENGTH OF STANDING TOGETHER
The more union members hear about Donald Trump—he supports dangerous "right to work" laws, refuses
We recently blogged about the hopeful U.S.