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Jason Linkins

Reporter Experiences Harrowing Ordeal As Employee Of Online Shipping Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Blue Collar Workers, Online Shipping Warehouse, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Amazon Wearhouse, Jobs, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Mac McClelland, Labor, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Temp Work, Mac Mcclelland Mother Jones, Business News, Media News

Mother Jones reporter and official recipient of the Order Of The Eat The Press Empire knighthood Mac McClelland followed up on the visit she made last...

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Dave Jamieson

Walmart-Contracted Warehouse Jobs Saved By Judge

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Outsourcing, Walmart, Labor, California, Temporary Workers, Temp Work, Subcontracting, Illinois, Firing, Unions, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

Just days ago, it appeared that a hundred low-wage workers at a Walmart-contracted warehouse in California would lose their jobs after publicly accusi...

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Dave Jamieson

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Holidays, Walmart, U.S. Economy, Hershey, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Jobs, Target, Retail, Labor Unions, Home Depot, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Video, Labor, Temp-Workers, Costco, Temp Work, Retail Sales, Christmas, Slidepollajax, Unions, Business News

JOLIET, Ill., and FONTANA, Calif. -- Like nearly everyone else in Joliet without good job prospects, Uylonda Dickerson eventually found herself at the...

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Dave Jamieson

Workers At Walmart-Contracted Warehouse Claim Wage Theft

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Walmart, Temp-Workers, Labor, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Class Action Lawsuit, Temp Work, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the largest class-action civil-rights lawsuit in American history, and will soon...

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Chicago Area Warehouses Thrive As Low-Paid Temp Workers Struggle

Chicago News Cooperative | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Temp Workers, Warehouse Workers, Labor, Temp Work, Temp Workers, Workers Rights, Chicago News

Tory Moore worked at the same packaged-food warehouse in Kankakee for six years, but he was denied a loan and apartment rentals after being told he di...

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Tips From A Bitter Temp

BusinessWeek | Anne Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tips on Temping, How to Temp, Anne Altman, Temp Work, Temping, Corporate Culture, Tempwork, Business News

When I tell people I work at an insurance company, I feel I need to explain myself. Sure, I work in insurance, but I'm "in insurance" about as much as...

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