While pro-worker rhetoric has become more prevalent in the party, support for unions is in shorter supply. “We are not beholden to anyone or any party,” O’Brien said in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the same day that Donald Trump was formally nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate for the November election. Despite the party platform’s dedication to the country’s “forgotten …
Organised labour’s solidarity with Palestine stands in stark contrast to the trade unions of the country’s industrial heyday when New York City construction workers famously attacked students protesting the Vietnam War. Bill Fletcher, a labour union activist, author and talk show host, told Al Jazeera that the politics of this generation of labour activists is influenced by the sharp economic …
The government has announced a tax relief measure and a direct income scheme for marginalised farmers in its recent interim budget. Finance minister Piyush Goyal said the Budget gives a better future to every section of society — the poor, the middle class, the farmers, organised labour, and unorganised labour. Finance minister Piyush Goyal speaks to Shishir Gupta and R …
