workers rights
Today in labor history: Jack London, writer, socialist, dies at 40
November 22, 2013Best known to U.S. readers as the author of Call of the Wild, London also wrote several powerful works dealing with workers, capitalism and socialism - including his famous dystopian novel The Iron Heel.
Read moreIraq: The struggle for new labor and trade union laws
November 21, 2013Progress on enacting a new trade union law in Iraq is still stalled.
Read moreToday in labor history: Employee time clock invented
November 20, 2013On this day in 1888, the employee time clock was invented by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, N.Y. Bundy's brother Harlow started mass producing them a year later.
Read moreReader voices: Even for hospital workers, health care is a problem
November 19, 2013As a health care professional, taking care of people and helping them comes from my heart and soul. It is what I love to do and truly feel what I was called to do with my...
Read morePlans to make Black Friday biggest worker mobilization ever
November 19, 2013Walmart workers, the nation's labor leaders, and community leaders from all across the U.S. announced plans to turn the busiest holiday shopping day of the year into one of the largest mobilizations of workers in U.S....
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