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Why do companies or agencies hire workers as independent contractors rather than regular laborers? In order to maximize profit, of course. Thus you have the Uber model of blatant exploitation.
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, completing one of the great engineering projects of the time, one that recreated racialized labor norms of the United States in Panama.
There is potentially huge news coming out of the National Labor Relations Board that would reclassify temp workers as joint employees of the company where they are temping, thus stripping away much of the reason why companies want temp workers and making them part of...
Sarah Jaffe has an excellent discussion of the relationship between police unions and the rest of the labor movement at Truthout. UAW Local 2865, which represents California graduate students, has.
Big Ketchup is now destroying the American working class: In a widely expected move, Kraft Heinz is cutting 2,500 jobs, the company announced Wednesday. That amounts to 5% of the.
The march to new media unionization continues rapidly, with writers at Vice Media voting to unionize. It's not a huge percentage of the company's employees, but is still significant because it shows how rapidly new media writers are seeing the benefit of representation to push...
On August 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal, New York, in response to the discovery of massive amounts of toxins underneath a school and.
Michael Hiltzik strongly suggests yes. Alice Tornquist, a Washington lobbyist for the high-tech firm Qualcomm, took the stage at a recent Qualcomm-underwritten conference to remind her audience that companies like.
The Chicago factory that makes Oreos is closing and moving to Mexico. 600 people thrown out of work. The company's CEO makes a cool $21 million a year.
Salon's writers are forming a union. Salon won't recognize said union to this point. There is an internet campaign to publicize this. If you are on Twitter, please send messages.
Robert Ross has an excellent article on Bangladeshi labor reforms two years after Rana Plaza. In short, the international outrage has led to some relatively minor but not meaningless changes.