workers rights – Page 120

Domestic workers and their children march for rights

January 27, 2012 By David Bacon

One Filipina caregiver from the East Bay explained that she sleeps in the same bed as her client: "What I'd like would be a bed where I could sleep by myself," she said.

Workers brave cold to lobby lawmakers on “right-to-work” danger

January 27, 2012 By Steve Share

Members from turning out to Champlin City Hall to learn more about a coming threat: a proposed "right to work" amendment to the Minnesota constitution.

Indiana House passes right to work for less bill

January 26, 2012 By John Wojcik

In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.

Will Twinkies, Kodak wreck the American dream?

January 24, 2012 By Susan Webb

It seems another American icon is being chiseled away.

Tentative agreement could end West Coast longshore battle

January 24, 2012 By Tim Wheeler

The tentative agreement may defuse a tense standoff as the Longview dockworkers wage a valiant battle to defend their jobs.