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Articles by Daniel Wasik
A New Labor Goal for the CEO-Worker Pay Gap
Britain’s top unions will soon be flexing their shareholder muscles — and insisting that the corporations where their pension funds have investments start taking significant steps to narrow the pay divide between executives and workers. Trades Union Congress leader Frances O’Grady How wide a gap between CEO and worker pay can a rational society accept?
Nurses Tell Big Pharma: Put Patients Over Profits
Day in and day out, American nurses see the damaging fallout of a for-profit healthcare system. That’s why nurses have long been at the forefront of the fight for healthcare justice. Last week, that fight took them to the headquarters of PhRMA, the trade group that represents pharmaceutical industry companies.
Massachusetts Begins Round Two in Its Fight to Tax Millionaires
Activists in Massachusetts were disappointed when the state’s Supreme Court struck down a ballot initiative last year to increase taxes on millionaires. But they’re already gearing up for round two. Their second try for the Fair Share Amendment – also known as the millionaire’s tax – began with a legislative hearing Thursday. Two hundred people, led by the Raise Up Massachusetts Coalition, packed the statehouse for a hearing on the Fair Share Amendment.
Machinist Daniel Wasik on Respect for the Working Class
Daniel Wasik is a machinist living in a small New Jersey town. He grew up in Canton, Ohio. He became alarmed about growing US inequality and started to write songs about it, including “Who Has to Wonder.” In January, he wrote a letter to The New York Times about lack of respect for the working class. He spoke with Chuck Collins at Inequality.org about what motivates him. How did you get into singing and writing about inequality? I grew up in Canton, Ohio.
A Handout for Uber and Lyft Is No Replacement for Public Transit
Local governments often make decisions that are profoundly unjust for the communities they are supposed to serve. Some of those decisions have the potential to be even more dangerous thanks to the power of a bad example. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, better known to locals as Metro, may be about to make one of those precedent-setting poor decisions.
GM Is Closing My Plant. What Are Politicians Going to Do About It?
For the past 20 years, I’ve walked at least nine miles a day on the body shop floor of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, where I help assemble the Chevy Cruze. In a few weeks, when GM shutters our plant, I’ll walk my last mile. I don’t know what’s next for me and nearly 15,000 other workers who are being laid off at GM plants across the country.
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