Tag: Workers
The real China, child labor’s comeback, ATF’s public relations tour
Li Jingjing is a reporter with the Chinese news group CGTN. The United States has entered a new era of provocation targeting China as its most significant global competitor for power. Lee Camp and Jingjing sat down together to go deeper into the conflict that’s brewing between the US empire and the Chinese republic. …
Twilight of truckers: Drone tech to sacrifice 3.5 million jobs on altar of profit (Full show)
Faran Fronczak compares the precarious and exploited position of today’s truckers with the job security and expectation of a dignified retirement enjoyed by truckers generations ago. Fortune 500 companies have paid lobbyists millions to keep Congress from raising wages and improving life for the country’s innumerable professional truckers …
Desperate companies lower bar to replace vanishing workers
Tens of thousands of medical workers at Kaiser Permanente are striking for a one percent raise. Instead of meeting their demands, the company is hiring ununionized workers, or “scabs.” RT America’s Faran Fronczak explains how the “two tier pay” cherished by so many US companies gaslights unionized workers into accepting pay cuts and hardship while the managerial class rakes in more money than ever before at levels scarcely imaginable to ordinary working people …
