On AlterNet: workers rights

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "workers rights"

American Exceptionalism and Worker-Bashing, Adam Davidson Style

Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism . January 9, 2012.

NYT/NPR economic guru Adam Davidson misrepresents the facts and appeals to American prejudices to sell worker-bashing.

No Dirty Gold: This Valentine's Day, Say No to Gold That's Mined at the Expense of the Environment and Workers

Payal Sampat, Scott Cardiff, AlterNet. February 11, 2011.

Communities affected by mining deserve meaningful changes that improve real conditions on the ground.

Working in the Shadows: A Year Undercover in the Jobs Most Americans Won't Do

Carlos Jimenez, YES! Magazine. December 24, 2010.

An award-winning writer immersed himself in work at the bottom of the scale in terms of pay, rights, and working conditions. Here's what he found.

Human Rights With Your Food: Farm Workers March in Florida for Living Wages

Andrew Stelzer, IPS News. April 21, 2010.

Farmworkers are calling on supermarket giant Publix to pay them a penny more for every pound of tomatoes they pick, which would almost double their meager wages.

One Company Thinks They've Created Fast Food With a Conscience -- Are They Right?

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 9, 2010.

Chipotle has a great record when it comes to buying more sustainable ingredients, but it has done one thing that has human rights activists howling.

Domestic Workers in New York Getting Closer to Having Their Own Bill of Rights

Lizzy Ratner, The Nation. September 11, 2009.

Bill would provide basic protections to many of the estimated 200,000 nannies, housekeepers and eldercare-givers who labor in New York State.

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

Mike Elk, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.

Women had come and gone, dogs had died, but Yuengling had always been there for me - until now.

SEIU Head Andy Stern Knows How to Restore America's Middle Class

Robert Greenwald, Meet the Bloggers AlterNet: Video. September 13, 2008.

From this week's Meet the Bloggers.

The Sex Industry: A Call for Harm Reduction

Ren, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. August 20, 2008.

I don't think the sex industry is going anywhere anytime soon, so thusly, I think that focus should be placed on the people in it.

Wal-Mart: Political Bully

Brave New Films, American News Project AlterNet: Video. August 14, 2008.

Shoppers respond to allegations of Wal-Mart's anti-union electioneering.

2006 Injustice By the Numbers:

Elana Levin, AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2006.

40 Facts on The State of Inequality in America