Party on dude, it's Spring Break! Time to go to Florida, drink to oblivion, puke everywhere, and have some great stories to tell to our bros back home! But of course, there's a labor side to Spring Break. What do you think it's like being...
women and work
Rep. Louise Slaughter on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership is another tool to exploit women: But something that has gone overlooked and under-discussed is the fact that the TPP will tie.
epa02787707 Indonesian migrant worker activists wearing black t-shirts, hold placards during a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 21 June 2011. Dozens.
Sarah Jaffe provides the details of a story that says all too much about how too many corporations deal with sexual harassment on the job. They cover it up, try to shut down the worker, and facilitate the harasser to continue exploiting women. Not long...
Waitresses: combining low wages and sexual harassment with the gendered pay gap for a very, very long time. The low wages compounded by the gender wage gap breeds a system.
Training future domestic workers, Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, New Jersey Premilla Nadasen has an exciting new book out on the history of domestic worker organizing..
If you want to start your Sunday morning with a truly horrific story, here's one on how a Florida tomato packing employer used his workers as a harem of women to rape on the job, how the police ignored the women's complaints, and how it...
The horrible killing of the Virginia TV crew has once again shown that a) gun violence is inherently political, b) that the National Rifle Association is a front organization for.
Above: The actual Rosie the Riveter image, which did not seek to fight unions I know I will never win this fight, but if we are going to try and.
Why do companies or agencies hire workers as independent contractors rather than regular laborers? In order to maximize profit, of course. Thus you have the Uber model of blatant exploitation that has built the company. In a world of extreme individualism, where people think working...
The systematic sexism inherent in most American work is particularly strong in the building trades, where sexism, work tradition, and popular perception all combine to make women a rare sight.
Sigh: In the Women’s World Cup, the USA soccer team took the championship against Japan on Sunday—just not with their pocketbooks. In fact, they are being paid 40 times less.