I had missed this story at the time, but you need to read Michael Grabell's Sidney Award-winning article on temporary work in modern America. Essentially, there's an entire temporary work economy that has sprung up under our noses, even more so than I thought. Employers...
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Mike Elk reports that the United Food and Commercial Workers are returning to the AFL-CIO after 8 years with the insurgent Change to Win coalition. While this is inside baseball.
Tomorrow, something called the Global Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is set to release its plan to improve working conditions in Bangladesh following the April fire that killed more than.
In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their own money, companies have begun backing off. At least some McDonald's are now offering their...
Last month, I attended a session dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union struggle at the Labor and Working Class History Association conference in New York. A couple of members of.
I was interviewed for this Jake Blumgart article at Alternet on attempts by United Students Against Sweatshops and others in the U.S. to hold apparel corporations accountable for the terrible.
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant increase in southern surveillance and oppression of free blacks and demonstrates the very real fear...
A real victory for UNITE-HERE today, as their long and contentious campaign against Hyatt has resulted in a nearly total victory, with the hotel chain agreeing to recognize the union.
We think of the company store as a relic of the Gilded Age, of one-company towns dominating the lives of their workers. We left this behind with the New Deal,.
Rich Yeselson with a good overview of how the Supreme Court is likely to eviscerate card check for unions next year: The circuit court panel remanded back to the district court so that it “can consider the § 302 claim and determine the reason why...
In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of.