In 2012, the Tarzeen Fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers. It's been slightly forgotten in the aftermath of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse that killed over 1100, but was certainly horrible in its own right--remember, Triangle killed 146 so Tarzeen was nearly as deadly. Of...
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On November 25, 1865, Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the white South's massive resistance to the freeing.
Why do Wal-Mart workers keep using one-day strikes as a protest tool? Largely because they don't have any other tools that are likely to work: One-day strikes don’t shut down.
Graduate students at the University of Oregon are threatening to strike over the university not giving their demand of paid family leave. You can read the details of the bargaining in quite a bit of detail here. It is nearing the end of the quarter...
Since we all know that a divided government is the answer to the problems of this nation, I present you the kind of commonsense bipartisan leadership that Americans are demanding..
K-Mart is forcing its employees to work on Thanksgiving or be fired: Jillian Fisher, who started a petition on Coworker.org asking Kmart to give her mother and other employees the.
They are an endangered species, but there are a few capitalists who see the income inequality of the New Gilded Age as a threat to capitalism, as they should. One is Nick Hanauer, who was an early investor in Amazon. He writes a lengthy essay...
The California Attorney General's office opposed the release of inmates because the state wanted to use them as cheap firefighter labor. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that attorneys.
Sweatshop factories in California are making a non-zero amount of your clothes: Workers in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of.
There are a lot of labor stories in my blogging queue right now. Let's just deal with them all at once. 1. Do we need a new legal framework for food workers? Jacob Gersen and Benjamin Sachs say we do and they are correct: Take...
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy and one of the most detestable and immoral people living in the United States, was finally indicted for a few of his many crimes.
That Qatar World Cup is really setting a new standard for labor rights: Thousands of migrant labourers from North Korea are toiling for years on construction sites in Qatar for.