Notes from a bitch…remembering the women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
March is Women’s History Month and I think it fitting, given the current labor struggles going on across the United States, to remember the Triangle Factory fire. I first heard about the Triangle...
View ArticleFewer than 5% of new jobs went to women in the last year
Here’s a nice cherry-topper to the news that woman still make 75% of men’s wages. At the New York Times, feminist economist Nancy Folbre analyzes new job growth data released by the National Women’s...
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Support the striking fast-food workers in New York City
Photo via Sarah Jaffe. Fast-food workers at dozens of chains in NYC are walking out today in what is the first step in the “biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United...
View ArticleHappy Labor Day!
After an inspiring and productive weekend of retreating, the Feministing crew is taking a much needed day off. Now here’s newsboys singing about union organizing: Lyrics here.
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UC Berkeley professor’s anti-union letter is anti-education
Photo via the UC Student Workers Union – Davis and In These Times. University of California service workers and graduate students went on strike for one day to protest unfair labor practices last...
View ArticleWatch this video, dance to the beat & protest Black Friday
It comes as no surprise that Walmart, which made news recently for asking for donations for the workers they underpay, exploits their workers. But the creative way these Walmart employees responded is...
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“Young Lakota”: A look into South Dakota’s anti-abortion battle. “Where my (STEM) ladies at?” Brittany Cooper on Michelle Obama and why white feminists need to lean back. Five things you may not know...
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Charts of the Day: Being in a union raises a woman’s pay by 12.9 percent
Hey ladies, you may need a PhD to earn as much as a dude with a BA, but being in a union could be worth a year of college in terms of a wage boost. According to a new report from the Center for...
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Quote of the Day: “My past is littered with the bones of men…”
She said she was all too aware that if she was selected, she would represent several hundred male athletes in the N.B.A.; she would deal with league officials and agents who were nearly all men; she...
View Article“And here’s your entertainment!” A story about workplace accountability
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. Full disclosure, this is a story about one of my most memorable period cycles ever. It’s a story about a rough work week. But more...
View ArticleDaily Feminist Cheat Sheet
America Ferrera wrote an open letter to Donald Trump. “To be a black woman and genius, is to be perpetually owed.” As of July 1, trans people in California have the right to be correctly identified on...
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A big step for non-profit workers: the staff of the Center for American Progress unionized. Learn more about “Audrie and Daisy,” a film about teen sexual assault premiering at Sundance today. Meet the...
View ArticleHarvard Dining Hall Workers Strike Enters Third Week as “Tentative Agreement”...
For over two weeks now, Harvard’s Dining Hall Workers, of the UNITE HERE Local 26 union, have been participating in a historic strike to protest cuts to their health coverage and to demand a living...
View ArticleNeoliberal academia complex shows its ass: Harvard rejects Manning, Jones,...
Harvard’s been sucking this week, and this suckage provides an important reminder of why corporate higher education, for all its rhetoric about “innovation,” actually acts as a barrier to radical...
View ArticleSupreme Court Case Threatens Unions and Women of Color
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for Janus v. AFSCME, a case that could disrupt the financial sustainability of union organizing in at least 22 states. Mark Janus, the plaintiff of Monday’s...
View ArticleVictory for West Virginia Teachers: Six Key Takeaways
Editor’s note: This post was co-authored by Sejal Singh and Meg Sri. West Virginia teachers came to win! After a massive nine-day teacher-strike which closed schools across every county in West...
View ArticleHow Unions Can Help End Academia’s Gender Inequalities
Harvard graduate students are voting on whether to unionize this week. If they win, they’ll join a growing trend of graduate students unionizing to fight stagnant wages, stingy health plans — and...
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