United ended its baggage handling contract at Denver International Airport with SkyWest, which has a unionized workforce, replacing it with a contractor that pays many workers the minimum wage. What happened next is predictable: United Airlines' baggage-handling issues at Denver International Airport have gotten so...
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On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced his famous $5 a day wage to his workers. Ford is often lauded for his efforts here and he was surely forward-thinking in.
Victoria Vanoch's history of flight attendants and beauty is a highly readable and enjoyable history of one of the most unique sets of workers in the twentieth century United States..
In yesterday's Trans-Pacific Partnership thread, Brian asks: I understand the issue with “shipping jobs overseas” and how major corporations get near slave labor when they do that. And obviously, there is extensive corruption of the ruling class in the exploited labor’s home countries. But what...
Most discussions of politics in the next two years focus on gridlock, with no appointees being confirmed, no bills being signed, effective rule by temporary executive order. But there is.
On December 24, 1913, striking Italian copper workers in Calumet, Michigan were holding their Christmas party in the town's crowded Italian Hall building. Someone shouted "fire." Could have been company.
While I have linked many times to incidents of police violence, I have very little to say about the actions of police unions, largely because I don't care about them since they do not show solidarity with other workers, or any other cause I believe...
I neglected to mention this last week, but let me say a quick word lauding the Obama Administration for extending workplace protection rights to transgender people, at least in the.
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
Businesses are very, very sad because the National Labor Relations Board did not tip the balance of workplace power toward them even further when it ruled for faster union elections. Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued long-awaited new rules to modernize and...
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.