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In July, a temp worker died from falling into a vat of chocolate. But the owners of the plant, Lyons & Sons, never had a license to make chocolate. Ultimately, one business is really culpable here: Hershey.
David Dayen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Every day in America, 16 people die at work from employer negligence. That's the backdrop behind a new video and website seeking to highlight the often-neglected issue of worker safety.
Jeff Faux | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
In Mexico, it was as if the US government had suddenly sent the National Guard to take over the Tennessee Valley Authority and replace its workers with people from Duke Power on the grounds that the TVA had run a deficit.
Bill Fletcher Jr. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The right to join or form labor unions is so central but so often overlooked precisely because it goes to central questions regarding power in so-called free market societies.
Angela Heimburger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The workers who clean houses, cook meals, and provide care for children and the elderly are often on call around the clock, paid a pittance for their services and protected far too little by labor laws.
Richard Aborn | Posted 09.20.2009 | New York
New York State has strong and progressive wage protection laws on the books, but too many workers go unprotected because those laws aren't enforced aggressively enough.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Civil rights and community leaders, local elected officials and union activists held the largest ever demonstration in Arkansas to demand that Sen. Lincoln support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
In area after area, Americans are suffering from the accumulated corruptions of our moneyed politics.
Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- In a little less than a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city af...
Carey Alexander | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Though the Act is undeniably a tremendous victory for women and workers, it's far too soon to rejoice.
David Bonior | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
Perennial basketball contenders Duke and Georgetown showed that, with some exercise of moral leadership, those in the business of sports also have the power to advance human rights.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
The legacy of George W. Bush's final days in office will be degradation of the environment, endangered species and the safety of working people.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green
Now that Wal-Mart has jumped on the organic bandwagon, it's making organic products available to folks who lack the access or means to shop at farmers' markets or, say, Whole Foods.
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — They've taken their sleeping bags and pillows back home and hauled away their protest placards after ending a nearly weeklong sit-in a...
Elana Levin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.
Elana Levin | Posted 09.28.2008 | Style
Today everyone will learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew -- that if you bother to buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too -- and by that I mean union made.
AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home
NEW YORK — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash...
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David Dayen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business