Volkswagen has a plant in Chattanooga. It is used to its company unionism of Germany and wants to recreate that in the United States, in part because labor representatives in Germany see the company's expansion into non-union plants in the U.S. as a threat. But...
new gilded age
The richest 1% now hold more of the nation's wealth than any time in American history going back to the keeping of such statistics in 1913. The previous high was.
Interesting take on the relationship between legacy admissions to colleges and tax policy in the New Gilded Age: Yet, curiously, the Internal Revenue Service does not treat alumni donations as.
That McDonald's. It's such a sweet New Gilded Age corporation, helping its employees learn how to live on its minimum wage salaries. Here's the sample budget journal: As Robyn Pennacchia notes, that $1105--that's assuming a 40-hour workweek. So McDonald's is telling you to work another...
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.
The mining industry has always loved violent labor intimidation, armed thugs, paramilitary operations against unions, and other fun parts of the Gilded Age we once thought we had left behind.
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...
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.
Jeebus. Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial. According to the San Diego...
As I talked about yesterday, there's a 1-day strike today of non-unionized government contract workers who make low wages and who SEIU ultimately wants to organize. In ye olden days.
House Republicans are moving forward in their ultimate goal of entrenching poverty, passing a farm bill that slashes food stamps. Steve King talks of food stamps that "expand the dependency.