New York University, supposedly a bastion of education and academic freedom and whose president John Sexton came on strongly against BDS because of academic freedom issues, made a deal with the United Arab Emirates to open a campus in Abu Dhabi. The reason was obvious:...
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This report shows just how unsafe working conditions are in the fast food industry. 79 percent of fast food workers were burned in the last year and 58 percent received.
On March 18, 1871, the French military attacked the worker movement in Paris with the aim of retaking the city for the nation's government. Workers foiled the military's invasion and.
The more the marijuana industry becomes ensconced in the regulatory lap of the American state, the harder it is going to be make it illicit again. That marijuana workers filed charges against employers with the National Labor Relations Board that the NLRB chose to consider...
Massachusetts is trying to do something about its tipped minimum wage. It raised it in a recent bill all the way to $3.75 an hour by 2017. To say the.
Vance Muse is the founding father of the right to work movement. Not surprisingly, he was also a virulent racist, saying, among other things about unions: “From now on, white.
The man who makes Ted Cruz look sane loves him some child labor in agriculture and from the beginning of his political career has advocated repealing child labor law.
Refinery workers with the United Steelworkers have now been on strike since February 1. The main issue in the strike is workplace safety. Let's take a refresher on the terrible.
I am obviously dismayed by Wisconsin passing a right to work bill and Scott Walker signing it. Of course, Walker had said he wouldn't sign such a bill last year.
Too much of the talk around women at work these days revolves around wealthy women like Sheryl Sandberg. As Janey Stephenson argues, if we want International Women's Day to mean something, that requires the closing of sweatshops worldwide. That will only happen if we create...
On March 10, 1925, the New York Times first reported the story of the so-called Radium Girls, as U.S. Radium Company employee Marguerite Carlough had sued her employer for $75,000.
It does seem that bike shop workers and the modern IWW fit together like chocolate and peanut butter. Somewhat OT, I have been perplexed by the establishment of DIY bikeshops.