Workers rights

Keaira Mark, a former call center worker for Maximus, and current Maximus employees Katherine Charles Sasha Tyson, and Deondra Bridges in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. The women were in Washington to take part in the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. (Photo by Casey Quinlan/States Newsroom)

Federal call center workers join March on Washington call attention to workplace inequities

BY: - August 29, 2023

Call center workers that help Americans navigate the ACA marketplace and Medicare are demanding more paths for advancement, higher pay, and more breaks between calls at this year’s March on Washington. They’re looking to bring government attention to their cause after previous efforts to get the attention of officials with the Department of Labor and […]

Workers’ COVID-19 lawsuits could be quashed under GOP push in Congress

BY: - December 18, 2020

WASHINGTON — A wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with a Tyson meat packing facility in Iowa alleged that managers secretly took bets on how many employees would get sick from COVID-19. Tyson fired seven managers at the Waterloo pork processing plant following an independent investigation into the betting allegations and a wave of national publicity. But […]

COMMENTARY

Three ways a 6-3 Supreme Court would be different

BY: - September 23, 2020

If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is replaced this year, the Supreme Court will become something the country has not seen since the justices became a dominant force in American cultural life after World War II: a decidedly conservative court. A court with a 6-3 conservative majority would be a dramatic shift from the […]