I was in northeastern Alabama yesterday and crossed into the state on I-59. I needed a restroom break thanks to exhaustion after Big Ears leading to too many Coke Zeroes. So I stopped at the Alabama Welcome Center just over the Georgia line for a...
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How much prison labor goes into the making of your car? At the very least, until a few days ago if you were driving a Hyundai, the answer was likely.
As you have probably seen by now, the United Auto Workers lost in their bid to unionize Mercedes. They had over 70 percent of the workers sign cards, but when.
The Union army is about to invade Alabama like it should have done in the Civil War. In 2014, the United Auto Workers abandoned a publicized push to unionize at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County. The union did so at the request of the...
The UAW organizing campaign and other union campaigns is freaking out the far-right elites in southern states, who have built their message on exploiting the workers of their states for.
What is it like to be an abortion doctor in Alabama when you can no longer practice? It's very hard. Here's a great profile of one from Irin Carmon. A.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: Hundreds of members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) march to the Manhattan headquarters of BlackRock, the largest shareholder in the mining company Warrior Met Coal on November 04, 2021 in New York City. The miners...
Lewis Hine, "Little Lottie, a Regular Oyster Shucker in Alabama Canning Co., Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 1911
The criminal justice system just keeps on giving. An Alabama inmate died after being “baked” to death in a sweltering prison cell described as “hotter than three hells,” his family.
I've long called for laws to force corporations to take supply chain labor conditions seriously. After all, they control for both quality and cost in the supply chain. They just don't care about the labor conditions or pollution because no one is making them do...
Prison strikes are rare. They require very difficult coordination and just getting information out about them is hard. I've written about this before. Now, there is another one, this time.
President Donald Trump is welcomed to the Greenbrier Resort by Gov. Jim Justice as part of A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier on Tuesday evening. Environmental racism is the gift.