Unionized academic workers at Rutgers University have organized across hierarchies and are preparing to go on strike.
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Working for a medical NGO taught me that humanitarian work...isn't.
With news over night of another round of dreadful polling numbers for Opposition leader Peter Dutton there is talk amongst the Liberals of a potential leadership spill. Some challengers have been working the phones to shore up numbers, whilst deputy... Read More ›
Stereotypes around parenthood are having a lasting effect on the gender pay gap, which has not budged in 20 years, according to a new study by Pew.
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By Bob Lord / CounterPunch Bernie Sanders and Bill Gates don’t agree on many things, but they both want to see a “robot tax,” a special levy on companies that replace workers with machines. Sanders and Gates may be well-intentioned with this call for a robot tax. But that doesn’t make their call on this […]
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Maximillian Alvarez discusses his most recent book on so-called ‘essential workers’ at the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ‘The Work of Living’, with Chris Hedges.
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How I found the joy in making art.
The Coalition has demanded that the Albanese Government immediately change the law to allow those under the age of 40 to be able to sell their kidneys in order to get into the housing market. ”What sort of society does... Read More ›
Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers has followed in the footsteps of previous Labor ministers, including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2009, by penning a theoretical article in the pages of the Monthly.
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By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes French workers have shut the country down with general strikes three times in the last month to defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It’s enough to make you cry. Here, the Social Security retirement age was ratcheted up to […]
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