by H20 Staff | Dec 17, 2019 | Labor
by Howie Hawkins Low-wage workers are suffering from an epidemic of wage theft amounting to $50 billion a year in the United States. New York is no exception. According to a 2014 U.S. Department of Labor report, workers in New York have $1 billion of wages stolen from...
by H20 Staff | Dec 11, 2019 | Foreign Policy, Labor, Media Release
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that Democrats and the Trump administration had reached an agreement on the terms of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Howie Hawkins, a candidate for the Green Party nomination for president, issued this statement...
by H20 Staff | Dec 7, 2019 | Labor, Media Release
As the only Teamster running for president in 2020, I was disappointed, though not surprised, that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) did not invite me to their December 7 presidential candidates forum in Iowa. Like all Teamsters, however, I was invited...
by H20 Staff | Sep 16, 2019 | Labor
US autoworkers have shut down General Motors. I support the strike of 48,000 General Motors workers who walked out at midnight Sunday evening. The shutdown of 35 manufacturing facilities in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Kansas, Texas and New...
by H20 Staff | Sep 1, 2019 | Labor
As someone who has been a union member since I was a Marine with the American Servicemen’s Union until I retired last year as a Teamster as well as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, I have lived the reality of mistreatment of workers in the United...
