labor
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.
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.
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.
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.