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Sweatshops in America? Yes, at T-Mobile call centers

July 16, 2013 By Special to People’s World

T-Mobile call center employees are forced to work in a highly stressful setting that demands they meet unrealistic quotas with only a short amount of time to handle customer requests.

Texas clergy and students back Walmart strikers

June 3, 2013

We protested low wages, unattainable benefits, and murderous uncertain working hours.

Race to the bottom for sweatshop workers

May 28, 2013 By Liz Iacobucci

Minimum wage workers, earning $74 a month were beaten by riot police for a protest demanding a $14 a month raise.

Today in labor history: 400 Black women strike over wages, conditions

May 6, 2013 By Teresa Albano

Writing in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois described the upsurge among Black women and men tobacco workers as part of the great industrial union organizing drives.