Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with the outside world and could be thrown out of their homes or off their land...
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I found this Times piece on the United Food and Commercial Workers' attempt to build a sort of quasi-union at Wal-Mart fascinating. And I wholeheartedly approve. It's almost impossible to.
Yglesias takes exception to my support of the Huffington Post boycott. He is misguided on several points: 1. Yglesias seems to think that I am trying to take away his.
As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers. Unlike unionized workplaces like the New York Times, Huffington Post exploits laborers desperate to get...
Shorter Glenn Harlan Reynolds: The non-violence of public employee unions is evidence that they lack commitment. And verbatim: In fact, it made them so formidable that they were able to.
Damn. And just when LGM was thinking about offering an unpaid internship: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading.
Horrible stuff:The bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables. But that luscious crop mostly emerges thanks to farm workers who labor in flat fields under a scorching sun - and has a price higher than the grocery-store...
I strongly endorse Sheehan's remarks, especially with respect to the comparison with Upshaw: Don Fehr took on this task and did it very well for a quarter-century. He did it.
Back in the spring of 2001, the grad students at the University of Washington went on strike to gain recognition of union affiliation. Watkins, Lemieux and I walked the line.
Tomorrow, I'll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty's new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008.In the words of one of my friends who served on the negotiating committee, we wrestled the...
Via Will Bunch, apparently Circuit City was begging some of its laid off employees to come back. Awwwww. As he concludes about the companay's strategy of firing its competent workers,.
Brad Plumer has the goods on what the Republican-majority NLRB has been up to and what's coming out with its term set to expire.Meanwhile, Kung-Fu Monkey takes on some of.