Wal-Mart's labor practices are really great for workers who want to get hurt on the job. Workers at an Indiana Wal-Mart warehouse allege they were subjected to safety risks including falling freight, forklifts on fire, and frostbite – and then illegally fired for organizing in...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal complaint against conditions in an Alabama poultry factory. Beatriz Navedo began to feel dizzy as she worked a processing line at.
Indeed, unpaid internships should be illegal. Stolen labor is never acceptable.
I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature today: In recent years, American mining companies have undermined the effectiveness of many of these...
I strongly recommend Michele Simon's article on how Tyson Foods and the USDA have pushed forward drastic increases in chicken production line speeds that would increase the profits of meat.
In the late 1990s, United Students Against Sweatshops did some really great work around fighting the exploitative system of the apparel industry by placing pressure on colleges and universities to.
Catherine Rampell is speaking smartly in her angry column on the systematic wage theft that goes on in fast food and other low wage industries: Take Ashley Cathey, 25, a six-year McDonald’s employee who participated in a national one-day strike last December. A couple of...
I am so not surprised that self-proclaimed friend of labor Media Matters wants a union-free shop: Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by Service Employees International Union.
Chinese workers making shoes for American manufacturers are on strike: More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been striking for several days.
Next week will mark the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. While it seems like a long time ago, in the New Gilded Age, it remains disturbingly relevant because the conditions that created such horrors in 1914 are returning to the United States of 2014....
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On April 14, 1975, the Bunker Hill Mining Company in Kellogg, Idaho announced a new policy in response to worries about female workers suffering reproductive problems due to lead exposure..