The California docks have a solution to solve the supply chain backups. Will it shock you to learn that said solution just happens to fit their own personal preferences around repealing labor and envi
The entire modern supply chain system is based on exploiting as many workers as possible in their mania to maximize profit in just-in-time deliveries. That unquestionably includes the largely Asian wo
In 2013, the Rana Plaza collapsed, killing 1,129 workers making your clothing. No one in America cared. American companies made sure nothing would change. European companies at least agreed to minor c
The last year has forced the nation and world to deal with its supply chain issues, at least to the point of not having access to what we want to buy (we obviously don’t care if workers die maki
Marc Levinson is a union economist who has done a lot of great work for a very, very long time. He has an interesting Times op-ed on how the ship getting stuck int the Suez Canal is another sign of th
The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It’s a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from Tu
When you create supply chains without the slightest concern for anything but low costs–ignoring workplace safety, human rights, labor rights, environmentally sustainability, every other concern
While the nation only cares about the presidential election, the routine daily horrors of the world continue without abatement and it’s high time we remember that these things are happening and