The global berry industry is probably not one you think about much but you should. The terrible conditions of food production around the world is something that I cover quite a bit both here at in Out of Sight. The food production system is as...
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The Maoists at the International Monetary Fund are out with more evidence that lower unionization rates lead to greater income inequality. We examine the causes of the rise in inequality.
On May 21, 1968, the Poor People's Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. Attempting to go on after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the system of franchising used by fast food companies, charging that it is designed to hold down wages unfairly. The union, which has been pushing to boost the pay of low-wage...
Yesterday's bill in Los Angeles to ease in a $15 minimum wage is great. But it isn't enough to live on in Los Angeles because housing is so expensive. A.
Above: Strikers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1949 While right-wing states are freaking out about the new AP standards (never mind that this year's AP US History DBQ was on the rise.
The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by state is not ideal. But given the broken government at the federal level, it's the...
Fast food workers fighting for $15 an hour took pictures of their homes to publicize what their life is like. Powerful stuff.
On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority as a centerpiece to his New Deal. The TVA would have both short and long-term impacts on.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might not have been many deaths, despite the fact that the sparks set off chemicals used...
You probably read Sarah Maslin Nir's excellent investigative report on the labor conditions inside New York nail salons, which are brutal and including wage theft, poisoning from breathing in cosmetics,.
Labor has made some positive gains recently in organizing the working-class employees of the Silicon Valley. But what's really interesting here is the aggressive attitude of labor: The state's labor.