Interesting breakdown in Variety about the role of women leading the writers strike. “Why did this strike look different? The people at the forefront of it really have been a.
Gee whiz, I wonder why this is happening? South Korean automaker Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new.
One thing about the labor market in the United States is that there is so much unbelievably horrifying exploitation going on in ways that you wouldn't even think of. Now.
This is the grave of Peter Brennan. Born in New York in 1918, Brennan grew up without his father, who died in the 1919 flu epidemic. It was a working.
On November 11, 1978, President Jimmy Carter vetoed HR 9937, which prohibited US trade negotiators from reducing textile tariffs. This typically terrible decision by the Carter administration on issues of.
On October 31, 1990, the Ravenswood Aluminum plant in West Virginia locked out its workers, represented by the United Steelworkers of America. Thus began a two year battle that was.
The thing about religious fanaticism (well one of many things) is that can be a very easy excuse for labor exploitation. If you don't work 16 hours a day for.
I am at a conference and so don't really have time to blog at all, but I do feel the need to at least mention that the UAW has come.
