As you have probably seen by now, the United Auto Workers lost in their bid to unionize Mercedes. They had over 70 percent of the workers sign cards, but when it came down to it, only 44 percent of the workers voted yes. Now, it's...
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The Union army is about to invade Alabama like it should have done in the Civil War. In 2014, the United Auto Workers abandoned a publicized push to unionize at.
The UAW organizing campaign and other union campaigns is freaking out the far-right elites in southern states, who have built their message on exploiting the workers of their states for.
What is it like to be an abortion doctor in Alabama when you can no longer practice? It's very hard. Here's a great profile of one from Irin Carmon. A year ago, the patients in the waiting area at the Alabama Women’s Center on Sparkman...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: Hundreds of members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) march to the Manhattan headquarters of BlackRock, the largest shareholder in the.
Lewis Hine, "Little Lottie, a Regular Oyster Shucker in Alabama Canning Co., Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 1911
The criminal justice system just keeps on giving. An Alabama inmate died after being “baked” to death in a sweltering prison cell described as “hotter than three hells,” his family alleged in a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Thomas Lee Rutledge, 44, died of hyperthermia on...
I've long called for laws to force corporations to take supply chain labor conditions seriously. After all, they control for both quality and cost in the supply chain. They just.
Prison strikes are rare. They require very difficult coordination and just getting information out about them is hard. I've written about this before. Now, there is another one, this time.
President Donald Trump is welcomed to the Greenbrier Resort by Gov. Jim Justice as part of A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier on Tuesday evening. Environmental racism is the gift that keeps on giving, as this ProPublica piece on the continued legacy of pollution in...
For a year now, there's been a pretty rough strike of United Mine Workers of America workers in Alabama. There's been some frustration with strikebreakers, leading to some shoving, some.
In the Gilded Age, legally spurious injunctions were issued with impunity by courts based on the solid legal principle of fuck unions. That is returning in the New Gilded Age,.