Amy Traub, DMI Blog AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 30, 2009. The exploitation of undocumented immigrants threatens the wages, benefits and working conditions for all workers, but we're not addressing the root problem.
Tyler Moran, Immigration Impact. October 30, 2009. The real answer to “enforcement” at the worksite is making sure all workers can exercise their labor rights and upholding our employment laws
John Nichols, The Nation. October 20, 2009. There are lessons progressives can take away from John Corzine's campaign: alliances with women and labor movements are as essential as putting a human face on health reform.
Kim Bobo, Religion Dispatches. October 6, 2009. What we’ve been doing as a nation to protect low-wage workers from workplace robbery is clearly not working.
Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon. September 23, 2009. If you think buying organic, locally-raised food from the farmers' market means that the workers who harvested your food were treated fairly, it’s not necessarily a given.
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. September 14, 2009. Republic workers captured the attention of the world when they occupied their plant on December 5, 2008 calling for the severance and vacation pay they were due.
Will Durst, AlterNet. September 7, 2009. Labor day is a tribute not to fancy movie stars or stodgy founding fathers or rich and bloated athletes, but us.
Frank Nelson, Miller-McCune.com. August 24, 2009. Wal-Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.
Amy R. Ramos, Miller-McCune.com. July 17, 2009. Stagnant wages, sexual harassment, worsening benefits, horrible treatment: just a few of the problems faced by American workers in all industries.
Art Levine, AlterNet. July 10, 2009. The fund "thought they could refuse to bargain with us ... break the law, tear up our contract ... and break the union."
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 7, 2009. Tiffany Ten Eyck interviewed longtime Bay Area immigrant rights activist David Bacon about the immigration position of AFL-CIO and Change to Win.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
David Bacon, TruthOut.org. June 23, 2009. Companies exploit undocumented workers, and then claim that sanctions require them to fire them when it's convenient.
Joe Bageant, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. Restoring dignity to laboring America won't be easy. It won't be pretty, and it won't be "within the system." Because the system is the problem.
Milagros Melendez-Vela, New America Media. June 16, 2009. In 2008, 21 workers graduated from a new training program in Maryland. This year the graduating class increased by 70 percent.
Margaret Wheeler Johnson, AlterNet. June 13, 2009. Author Matthew Crawford publishes a jeremiad against white-collar culture and the educational system designed to populate it.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 27, 2009. Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was a big disappointment, but there's no time to mourn: We must turn this anger into momentum.
Humberto Márquez, IPS News. May 18, 2009. So far this year, four Ciudad Guayana activists belonging to different construction industry unions have been murdered.
