Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain't no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building. The use of prison labor means he didn't have to use and pay unionized state...
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This story has received very little coverage, but today was nearly the day the National Labor Relations Board, for all intents and purposes, died. The NLRB is supposed to have.
1. Conditions at Chinese computer manufacturing plants remain horrible. Apple has claimed they will look into these problems, but actual action remains unlikely. The workers themselves are fed up and.
Very disappointing piece from Kevin Drum supporting Alan Haus' call for unions that only negotiate wages and nothing else. Haus, an employment lawyer, is packaging old-school company unionism in new wrapping, calling for conservatives to be OK with highly paid workers so long as management...
On November 22, 1909, approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the.
The Republican Vision of America's Future Not that this is surprising, but that he would say it so openly suggests how brazen the Republican Party has become in eviscerating the.
Rather than 2 discrete posts on OWS, it makes more sense to combine them. First, I really don't care whether OWS is losing popular support, as one poll suggests. While I suppose falling support might be rhetorically challenging because of the 99% rhetoric, the reality...
I really hope this class-action lawsuit filed by former unpaid interns over the exploitative nature of their internships at Fox Searchlight Pictures succeeds. The rise of unpaid internships has been.
On November 11, 1919, the people of Centralia, Washington, a small lumber town in the southwestern part of the state, celebrated the first anniversary of Armistice Day with a parade..
On this date in 1935, the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. Ever since the failure of the Knights of Labor to organize all workers behind the 8 hour day in 1886, the American labor movement was primarily dominated...
1. Tomorrow Ohio voters go to the polls to decide on the fate of SB-5, the anti-union bill pushed through the Ohio legislature by John Kasich and his Tea=Partying friends..
On November 5, 1916, a boat loaded with members of the Industrial Workers of the World attempted to dock in Everett, Washington. Local leaders, determined to stop the I.W.W. from.