Cindy Farquhar

Statistics show new claims for jobless aid fewest in 15 months

July 1, 2021 By PAI

But National Employment Law Project warns millions now depending upon benefits will be cut off by July 4.

Trump employees win their battle for a contract

January 1, 2017 By PAI

After two years of struggle, workers won a four year contract with significant wage hikes, improved working conditions, family healthcare benefits, pensions and job security.

Verizon strike attracts support in Southern California

May 6, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

The largest such labor action in the U.S. in many years, the strike by Verizon workers taking on corporate greed is now in its fourth week.

Labor Dept. to coal mine owners: Pay black lung victims’ claims, then appeal

April 29, 2016 By PAI

The old appeal policy left hundreds of thousands of coal miners, disabled from black lung disease, usually without a penny of benefits before they died.

The “skills gap” myth: What’s really driving down wages?

December 31, 2015 By Tim Libretti

There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.