workers rights
Community protests grocery chain’s cooperation with ICE
October 23, 2012Protesters also urged customers to join a boycott of all Mi Pueblo stores to protest the company's announcement that it was cooperating with the government's online E-Verify program.
Read more
Florida magnate threatens firings if Obama wins
October 19, 2012Shades of 1896: A Florida-based time-share magnate is threatening to fire workers if a Democratic Party's presidential nominee wins the November election.
Read more
Romney crowd calls outsourced Sensata workers “communists”
October 18, 2012What happens when you try to get Mitt Romney's attention at a campaign rally? The Republican's jeering tea party supporters call you communists.
Read more
Bain workers rev up protests on day of Debate 2
October 16, 2012On the day of the second debate between President Obama and his Republican challenger, Bain Capital workers step up efforts to expose Mitt Romney's role in the outsourcing of their jobs.
Read more
Romney to outsourced workers: Drop dead
October 3, 2012Workers at the "Bainport" encampment outside the Sensata Technologies plant here are in Day 22 of their civil disobedience protest against the outsourcing of their jobs.
Read more