The New York Times had a piece on the supposed rift in Democratic Party get out the vote efforts over the party embracing the fight against climate change. I need to excerpt this in some length for you: Two of the Democratic Party’s most loyal...
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If Uber is proving fertile ground for labor organizing, for Amazon, it's been a lot harder, thanks in no small part to an already revved-up anti-union campaign that includes managers.
I've talked about the injustice of non-compete agreements at the lower end of the labor market a few times before. It's worth revisiting the point once again to note its.
Since we've been talking about SEIU's now failed deal with Airbnb, this is also very interesting: Uber announced an agreement on Tuesday with a prominent union to create an association for drivers in New York that would establish a forum for...
This is an excellent point by Ben Casselman. Why do factory workers make more in Michigan? In a word: unions. The Midwest was, at least until recently, a bastion of.
North Carolina is great at two things these days. One is rampant labor exploitation. The other is horrendous wingnut state legislators. I wonder if we can combine those issues? Of.
Now this is certainly interesting. The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — are completing a plan that calls for unusually close cooperation in...
The tobacco companies persist in employing children to harvest tobacco. Not in Malawi and China. In Virginia and North Carolina. Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Scenes on a Cotton Plantation: Hoeing, engraving from Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1867 Sven Beckert's Bancroft Prize-winning book is a brilliant as advertised. He explores the history of cotton production.
The best book reviews are as much about the review author as the book being reviewed while at the same time being fair to the book. That's what I strive for when I review, although probably with mixed success. Anyway, I thought of this when...
On May 3, 1965, Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn Bernofsky, Richard Kallweit, and Clark Richart bought a 7-acre piece of land north of Trinidad, Colorado. This would become known as Drop City,.
As many of you know, Verizon's line workers are on strike. Basically, Verizon is looking to bust its remaining unions. It has invested heavily in wireless, but still has the.