As I discussed awhile ago, the teaching assistants at my alma mater, the University of Oregon, were discussing going on strike over the university's refusal to provide them paid sick leave. In response, the university threw academic integrity out the window and threatened to allow...
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On December 5, 1894, Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations from.
Chicago just passed a minimum wage increase that will take it to $13 in 2019. Quite reasonable. Business owners are not happy. Shockingly, as business owners have said with every.
Above: The greatest aphrodisiac known to humanity, the union card. What is sexier than union membership? Nothing of course: Who knew that a union card was a turn-on? Well, that might not be literally the case, but a new study finds that for men, union...
On December 2, 1984, a gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Perhaps the worst industrial disaster in world.
While you are engaging in America's most consumerist day of the year, a real feat given the competition, remember the workers struggling to make ends meet that serve you. Especially.
Last year, Whole Foods was one of many companies to force employees to work on Thanksgiving. The employees were very angry about this and seven went on strike at a store in Chicago. In response to the negative publicity, Whole Foods stores in the Midwest...
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.
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 the workplace like iconic strikes of yore did (and some workers, like Chicago teachers, still...
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.
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..