Businesses are very, very sad because the National Labor Relations Board did not tip the balance of workplace power toward them even further when it ruled for faster union elections. Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued long-awaited new rules to modernize and...
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This is why unionizing Walmart is so important and why just ballot measures for the minimum wage isn't enough to improve the lives of workers. Unions are about dignity and.
The Los Angeles Times has another installment in its outstanding series of labor exploitation on the Mexican vegetable farms that supply U.S. markets. This piece is on the rampant use.
Prison labor not only takes jobs away from non-prisoners who earn wages, but it is a corrupt system that does not save the state money, as the Seattle Times reports. There is also no evidence this unpaid labor creates skills for prisoners they can use...
It's hard to argue against Harold Meyerson's point that it is a lot easier to win higher wages for 100,000 people than to unionize 4000. Or unionize 20. The barriers.
Imagine if this was the standard for regulating production rather than the exception that took a decade of hard struggle to win: Growers in the Fair Food Program are prohibited.
Here we have yet another article on the decline of the middle class, by which of course the author actually means the words you can't say in America--the working class. In other words, we had good paying jobs that allowed people to be upwardly mobile....
The above quote is how Michael Powell describes the NFL in this Times article on the horrible treatment of the Buffalo Bills' cheerleaders, a problem experienced by these workers through.
The outstanding New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse took the New York Times buyout and is leaving the paper. The chances the Times will replace him with a full-time.
Good call from Obama's OSHA: Beginning Jan. 1, OSHA rules will go into effect that may reveal higher daily death and injury counts on the job. Although most workplaces are far safer today than in the past, terrible accidents do occur, and the agency is...
The food industry, along with the apparel industry, has long led the way in labor exploitation. Throughout the 20th century, agricultural interests went to extreme lengths to keep labor costs.
Being poor is horrible for so many reasons. Among them is that life's little inconveniences for the non-poor can be utterly devastating. Getting sick and missing a couple of days.