One of the many, many problems with the way we run our economy is that we plunge ahead on every issue without rules and then, maybe just maybe, if things get bad enough, we take some minimal steps on a problem. Take this for example:...
supply chains
I am off to give a talk at a labor law conference in Minnesota where I am revisiting some of my discussions of globalization and the need for a Corporate.
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.
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 workforces that make this stuff. But even in the United States, the system is predicated...
I'm going to make the bold statement that maybe outsourcing almost all production of key goods to a few nations in Asia has its downside: The global semiconductor shortage that.
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.
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 making our stuff). Lean supply chains were...
The weather is getting warm and people are grilling. It goes without saying that charcoal is a great way to cook. I'm not going to get into the debate over.
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.
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 Turkmenistan—the ninth largest producer and seventh largest exporter of the world’s cotton—was again harvested with...
Pandemic or not, the global apparel industry is going to make sure that it is the workers making our clothing that is going to suffer the most. For nearly a.
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 but wresting profit--you create a.