Labor
New Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized
July 27, 2009Original source: Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft. As Facing South has covered, following the 2005 hurricane season, the Gulf Coast region saw...
Read moreContract arbitration: Critical to workers freedom to bargain
July 27, 2009One of the critical provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act would guarantee that workers who form a union get a fair first contract.
Read morePride, anger mix as Chrysler workers watch plants shut down
July 26, 2009FENTON, Mo. — As the crowd swells and hundreds of UAW members line the entrance to the Chrysler North and South Assembly plants here today, I can’t help but think of my grandfather. He gave over...
Read moreDone crying, today shell even smile minimum wage & one moms story
July 24, 2009MERIDEN, Kan. — Celeste Henderson is a living, breathing mom who is in the news today, but only as a statistic. She’s one of the millions of American low-wage workers directly affected by Friday’s hike in...
Read morePlease come to Pittsburgh
July 24, 2009They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Maybe, at times, that’s true. This is about what is going to happen in another city, however — the home of the Pirates, Steeltown, USA, —...
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