worker rights
Walmart’s treatment of workers hurting its bottom line
June 13, 2014Last week, Walmart reported falling sales for five consecutive quarters and the company reported losing up to $3 billion a year because of stocking problems.
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Report: Privatizing public service jobs a disaster
June 12, 2014The workers are still part-timers, and their compensation is still far from the level that New Haven school custodians enjoyed before the privatization hit.
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Police snatch body of Korean Samsung worker
June 6, 2014A leader of a new union at Samsung in South Korea named Yeom Ho-seok took his own life to protest the vicious anti-union policies of the company.
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China and Russia have workers councils but not Chattanooga
June 5, 2014Workers in the United States know organizing here in the belly of the corporate beast is no easy task.
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UAW’s Bob King: We’re in a war for democracy
June 5, 2014Retiring UAW President Bob King proclaimed a truism long understood by labor activists - "The amount of power you have determines the amount of justice you get."
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