The Chicago factory that makes Oreos is closing and moving to Mexico. 600 people thrown out of work. The company's CEO makes a cool $21 million a year.
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In 1969, the beaches of Santa Barbara, California were inundated with oil from a nearby spill. This event galvanized environmentalists both locally and around the nation. I use the Santa.
The anti-sweatshop activism of the late 1990s and early 2000s has been on the upswing lately, partially in response to the outrages of the 1134 workers dying at the Rana.
Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes from? How does it become leather? Of course you don't ask yourself that question. You...
In July, Republicans filibustered a bill that would take away tax breaks that encourage jobs to be outsourced overseas. The bill would have cost U.S. companies that move overseas $143.