It's long been known that better working conditions and higher pay lead to happier and more productive workers. Yet short-sighted greed and corporate resentment over treating workers like human beings.
It's about time. A bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to give employee rights and benefits to professional sports cheerleaders passed its first committee in Sacramento this week. Gonzalez, a former.
The anti-sweatshop activism of the late 1990s and early 2000s has been on the upswing lately, partially in response to the outrages of the 1134 workers dying at the Rana.
Above: Terrible human being Michelle Rhee. California teachers' unions are under a new assault by teachers suing over unions using dues for political campaigns. Members can withdraw but they don't.
In the aftermath of the Homestead Strike of 1892, the New York songwriter William W. Delaney composed a song by the name of "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men.".
Building off the sociopathy of its founder, Steve Jobs, Apple is banning felons from working on constructing its buildings. It's nice that capitalists are judging the morals of the American.
I love this campaign by the Canadian Fair Trade Network that plays on country of origin labels to describe the working conditions in those nations. "100% cotton. Made in Cambodia.
OSHA is cracking down on Dollar General for the terrible working conditions in many of its stores around the nation, fining one Atlanta-area store $83,000 for serious fire risk violations..
