Labor

The Death of the 'Good Union Job': Plight and Protest of Thousands of Mine Workers Barely Noticed By Mainstream Media

By Laura Flanders / AlterNet

If companies can break the UMWA, heaven help the fast food workers.

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Why Apple is a Sociopathic Company

By Curtis Ellis / Huffington Post

84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Cambodia Shoe Factory Collapse Kills 2

By Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP

Milwaukee Makes Five (Cities So Far): Fast Food Workers Strike for Higher Pay and Union Rights

By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

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84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

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Labor

College Execs have Private Jets? New Report Finds Public University Presidents Live Large

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The 182 Percent Loan? How Installment Lenders Trap Borrowers

Paul Kiel / ProPublica

Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

AlterNet

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families

Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

Indispensable Guide: Where to Shop to Avoid Buying from Businesses that Endanger Workers

Bryce Covert / Think Progress

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Why Clean Air and Worker Justice Are in Peril at America's Ports

Paul Rosenberg / AlterNet

Why the Person Building Your Next House Might Just Be a Woman

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Pregnant T-Mobile Employee Forced to Take Vacation Time to Use Bathroom, Fired Over 12 Cent Error

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Workers Around the World Unite For May Day

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It's All Too Easy to Get Fired in America: In 49 of 50 States, You Can Be Fired for Any Reason

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Top 10 Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama -- None of Them Are Good

Bruce A. Dixon / Black Agenda Report

Why Economic Criminals View Bangladesh as a Model for Workers Everywhere

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Chicago's Fast Food and Other Low Wage Workers Stage One-Day Walk Out

Josh Eidelson / Salon

Billions of Corporate Dollars Are Hijacking University Research to Help Make Profits

Joaquin Palomino / East Bay Express

Are the Banks Already Orchestrating Another Meltdown?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

PLAY: “Space Invaders” With a Twist -- New “Tax Evaders” Game Makes Corporations Pay Fair Share

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Give The People What They Want! Taxes That Pay for Jobs, Education, Healthcare and Science

Mattea Kramer / Tom Dispatch

Want to Get Americans Off Junk Food? Pay Them a Living Wage

Jill Richardson / Other Words

Chris Christie & Wisconsin's Scott Walker Are Right-Wing Soul Brothers: What It Means for Unions and Progressives

Don Hazen / AlterNet

Moyers: Imagine If America Had Adopted Martin Luther King's Economic Dream

Bill Moyers, James Cone, Taylor Branch / BillMoyers.com

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