On AlterNet: labor rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "labor rights"
Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet. April 30, 2009.
The French have taken to bossnapping -- "sequestering" their bosses while keeping them comfortable and safe -- to protest economic unfairness.
Staff, Labor Notes. March 18, 2009.
Everybody would rather have the choice of EFCA rules, but unions still have to organize and empower workers.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. March 13, 2009.
Labor and employment laws are complicated beasts. A new website launched by the Chicago-based national group Interfaith Worker Justice offers help.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. March 12, 2009.
"Union avoidance" firms are marketing "Employee Free Choice Act Defense Kits" for $5,000 a set.
Mary Shaw, AlterNet. December 23, 2008.
Labor is used to making concessions -- the executives are not. And look where that got us.
David Bacon, New America Media. December 22, 2008.
The successful union strategy relied on uniting a diverse workforce of African Americans, Puerto Ricans and immigrant Mexicans.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. December 20, 2008.
Yet another example of the right-wing agenda to do away with labor rights.
David Bacon, TruthOut.org. December 16, 2008.
Can direct action on the part of workers overturn American corporatism?
Kim Bobo, Dissent Magazine. December 5, 2008.
Wage theft is a widespread crisis affecting millions of U.S. workers from whom billions of dollars are stolen each year.
Barbara Briggs, CorpWatch. September 30, 2008.
The costs of the car giant's endless search for greater "efficiency" are borne by workers.
Rep. George Miller, Huffington Post. September 3, 2008.
Under Bush, the Labor department has been stacked against workers' rights.
Kim Bobo, Religion Dispatches. August 26, 2008.
A labor contract that accommodates the religious practices of a Tennessee plant's Muslim workers has unleashed a firestorm of controversy.
Carole Bass, AlterNet. July 27, 2008.
OSHA, inspect thyself.
Marie Kennedy, Chris Tilly, Dollars and Sense. July 24, 2008.
In France, a movement to legalize the sans-papiers is afoot.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. May 29, 2008.
Now that a deal with Burger King has been signed, it's time to go after WalMart, Whole Foods and the other big supermarket chains.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. March 11, 2008.
The “Freightliner Five” were fired after leading a strike against givebacks.
David Moberg, In These Times. June 23, 2007.
America is the richest country in the world -- so why does this country deny its workers mandated paid vacations and sick days?
