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A Fast Food Nation Fights for Living Wages—Against Long Odds
by Seth Freed Wessler on December 7 2012, 10:16AM
Saavedra Jantuah joined last week’s strike of New York City fast food workers, the latest in a string of efforts to organize the new service economy’s low-wage workers. She knows she now has a long road ahead.
Topics: Economy
We Need Better Food. We Need Fairer Food Jobs. So Let’s Get Both.
by Rinku Sen on July 10 2012, 1:02PM
In a new report, Colorlines’ publisher asks: What could happen if the people who work to ensure good eating and those who fight for labor rights were to strategize together, and move projects that address both concerns?
Topics: Economy, Health, How We Eat, Rinku Sen
Amazon.com on Pace to be Bigger Than Walmart by Decade’s End
by Jorge Rivas on June 19 2012, 1:08PM
Amazon.com is already the world’s largest online retailer and if they continue growing at the current pace they’ll be bigger than Walmart by the end of the decade.
Dozens of Foxconn Workers Arrested After Riot in Chengdu, China Plant
by Jorge Rivas on June 7 2012, 12:50PM
Hundreds of Foxconn employees living in company dormitories in Chengdu, China clashed with security staff Monday evening.
Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, /NOW Blog
Carwasheros in Los Angeles Win Over $1 Million in Settlement
by Jorge Rivas on January 12 2012, 10:58AM
Workers at a car wash in Los Angeles will receive unpaid wages since 2006.
There’s An App for That: Figure Out How Many ‘Slaves’ Work for You
by Jorge Rivas on October 20 2011, 2:00PM
There’s often a heavy price to pay for your favorite gadgets. And that’s long before they hit store shelves.
Topics: Media
The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets
by Sophia Cheng on September 1 2011, 9:30AM
The world’s largest consumer manufacturer has drawn global outrage for a string of worker suicides in its factories. But the problem is rooted in Western consumer markets, not Chinese sweatshops.
Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, Technology
Republicans Bash Immigrant Workers and Call It a Jobs Bill
by Julianne Hing on June 16 2011, 10:42AM
Labor and immigrant rights groups are pushing back against a renewed push to expand use of the E-Verify workers’ database.
Topics: Economy, Immigration, Jobs Crisis
Will 2012 Become Labor’s Moment of Political Truth?
by Yvonne Yen Liu on May 27 2011, 9:09AM
Let’s hope so. Because workers of color have rarely been in more dire need of a true political voice.
Consensus Builds on Free Trade Deals, Alongside Proof of Their Toll
by Michelle Chen on April 18 2011, 9:27AM
On the same day this month, the president backed a Colombia pact he campaigned against, and new memos revealed how complicit Chiquita has been in anti-union violence.
Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, Global Justice
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s Financial Martial Law on Poor Cities
by Rinku Sen on March 25 2011, 10:11AM
The state’s GOP shows Wisconsin how to truly steal from workers and give to corporate power.
Topics: Detroit Schools, Economy, Rinku Sen
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Recounts Sobering History in Defense of Unions
by Jamilah King on March 22 2011, 10:46AM
The Labor Secretary doesn’t shy away from calling out the anti-immigrant fervor of today’s anti-labor landscape.
Topics: Wisconsin
Jesse Jackson to Wisconsin Protesters: “When We Fight, We Win”
by Kai Wright on February 19 2011, 1:00PM
Madison is looking more and more like the left’s moment of truth.
Topics: Economy, Kai Wright, Wisconsin
Showdown in Wisconsin: Round Up of Reporting on Union Fight
by Raquel Brown on February 18 2011, 5:55PM
Thousands swarm the Capitol to fight back as new GOP Gov. Scott Walker tries to end collective bargaining for public workers.
Who Are All These Evil Public Workers? Black People
by Kai Wright on February 18 2011, 11:53AM
National data suggests black folks’ jobs hang in the balance of the increasingly ugly fight over public workers unions.
Topics: Economy, Kai Wright, Wisconsin
Study: Immigrant Women Suffer Abuse On the Job
by Jamilah King on November 19 2010, 8:41AM
A new report urges Americans to consider the hands that feed them this holiday.
Topics: Immigration
Asian Long-Term Unemployment Ticks Up in California
by Michelle Chen on September 15 2010, 9:30AM
In California, Asian Americans may suffer relatively low rates of unemployment, but a surprising number of them tend to stay stuck in that hole for a long time.
NY Domestic Workers Celebrate Historic Labor Win
by Michelle Chen on September 1 2010, 11:04AM
It’s official: Gov. Paterson signed into law yesterday new rights for New York State’s domestic workers yesterday. Their movement may be a national model for reform.
Filipina Nurses See Discrimination in San Francisco Health System
by Michelle Chen on August 20 2010, 9:20AM
The California Nurses Association accused a major healthcare company of “systematic discrimination against the hiring of Filipino registered nurses.”
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Single Women Fend for Themselves in Recession
by Michelle Chen on August 11 2010, 9:29AM
Single women of color, despite their vital economic contributions as consumers, parents and workers, bear the brunt of the economy’s decline.
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