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Inspiring Each Other Forward

Mike Lux | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics
Mike Lux

Yesterday, homeowners who have been royally screwed over by big Wall Street banks risked not only arrest but worse in demonstrations at the Department of Justice demanding that they start prosecuting bankers rather than the people ripped off by them.

A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.15.2013 | Impact
Beverly Bell

CIW members hope that soon all tomato pickers throughout the country will have greater rights and wages, and then all agricultural workers, with the establishment of an industry-wide standard.

Immigration Reform -- Notes from an African American

Cathy Youngblood | Posted 05.15.2013 | Black Voices
Cathy Youngblood

I entered the hospitality industry in 2010. It took me all of one week to realize what I did not want to believe. My housekeeping sisters, mostly Latina, were treated different than me.

Goodwill Minimum Wage Loophole Will Shock You

John Hrabe | Posted 05.15.2013 | Business
John Hrabe

A majority of Goodwill entities in the United States pay people with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, while these same Goodwills simultaneously spend tens of millions of dollars per year on executive compensation and travel-related expenses.

Rick Perry's Believe It or Not!: What Texas Could Learn From Bangladesh

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business
Sanjay Sanghoee

Unlike Bangladesh, Texas is already extremely wealthy and can afford to adopt a more balanced and humanitarian approach to economic growth. Instead, the former seems to be modernizing while Governor Perry pushes his state towards an unreasonably purist form of capitalism.

Big Retailers Vow To Improve Factory Safety

AP | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- Four of the world's biggest retailers agreed to sign a pact to improve safety at garment factories in Bangladesh nearly three weeks after ...

What Shameful Postville, Iowa Immigration Raid Teaches Five Years Later

Marielena Hincapié | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Marielena Hincapié

Five years later, the national push for commonsense immigration reform threatens to come undone at the hands of one of Postville's own senators.

Dave Jamieson

H&M Makes Big Move On Factory Safety

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

Fast-fashion retailer H&M has agreed to sign onto a binding accord to improve working conditions in Bangladesh garment factories, a move that labor ad...

Not Just an 'Issue' -- Invisibility in the Immigration Debate Hurts Real People

Brian Pacheco | Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Brian Pacheco

Media should stop distracting Americans with coverage about the political games being played around immigration reform, which reduces it to simply an "issue" and as a result divorces it from the people whose lives hang in the balance.

Buying Off the Ref

Brian Young | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
Brian Young

In so many ways, the Chamber and its allies are pushing the Court in a direction where people get less and less power to counter corporate abuses.

Meet a New Endangered Species: The Coal Miner

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

If we allow Patriot, Peabody and Arch to renege on their promises to their workers, retirees and widows, we'll be failing our fellow Americans.

Buffett Tells Men To 'Get Onboard' With Key Business Strategy

Reuters | Ben Berkowitz | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business

(Reuters) - The key to America's future success lies in helping women achieve as much as their male counterparts, billionaire investor Warren Buffett ...

PHOTOS: Low-Paid Workers Rally On May Day

AP | Posted 05.02.2013 | Business

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of low-paid workers are rallying in the streets on May Day to demand better pay and improved working conditions a...

Emran Hossain

Thousands Still May Be Missing In Bangladesh Collapse

HuffingtonPost.com | Emran Hossain | Posted 04.30.2013 | World

WASHINGTON -- Relatives of workers still missing in the collapsed Bangladesh factory building say the true number of dead is far greater than the offi...

How the Son of Immigrants Came Around on Immigration

Brian Pacheco | Posted 04.30.2013 | Gay Voices
Brian Pacheco

It is time for us as Americans to start asking questions about how we can make this country better. The time is now to enact a fair and humane immigration reform.

The Darker Side of E-verify

Alison Pennington | Posted 04.30.2013 | San Francisco
Alison Pennington

Do we want to reinforce failed and inhumane policies such as e-verify? Or should we repeal employer sanctions and strive for solutions that do not criminalize people for working to provide for their family?

Workers Memorial Day

Sen. Bob Casey | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics
Sen. Bob Casey

On Sunday, April 28th, we observe Workers Memorial Day. It is a day to honor those workers who have died, been disabled, injured or made sick by their work. It is also a day to recommit ourselves to the fight for safe and healthy workplace for all workers.

Accountability for the Bangladesh Building Collapse: Blame Game or Real Change?

Beth English | Posted 04.29.2013 | World
Beth English

If history is any guide, progress on workplace standards in Bangladesh and in other developing countries will be difficult to achieve and slow in coming.

When -- and How -- Did Business Become the Enemy?

John Friedman | Posted 04.26.2013 | Business
John Friedman

Is this just rationalization for not advancing people (or shipping jobs overseas), a justification to avoid feeling guilty about not passing the reigns to a generation champing at the bit for their turn to be in charge, or something more?

Bangladeshi Garment Factory Collapses: The Price of Your Cute Clothing

Katy Wolk-Stanley | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business
Katy Wolk-Stanley

If you have ever needed a reason to stop buying new foreign-made clothing, this is your moment. Buy used, buy made in America, but please, I beg of you, make a choice to stop being part of the cycle that keeps these unsafe factories in business!

MORE THAN 300 DEAD

AP | JULHAS ALAM | Posted 04.27.2013 | Business

SAVAR, Bangladesh — Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed into a pile of mangled metal and concrete have been ...

You Can't Survive on $7.25

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 04.15.2013 | Black Voices
Benjamin Todd Jealous

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. The NYC fast-food workers' newfound willingness to organize a union and strike -- at tremendous personal and economic risk -- shows just how bad the economy has become for low-wage workers.

Efforts to Deliver 'Kill Shot' to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC

Mary Bottari | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics
Mary Bottari

Advocates have helped pass paid sick day laws in cities like San Francisco, Washington D.C., Seattle and Portland, but big business has been pushing back.

Immigration Reform Must Uncover Recruitment Schemes of Temporary Workers

Gregory Cendana | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Gregory Cendana

The national debate around immigration policy reform has largely ignored a disturbing trend in businesses: the modern-day indentured servitude of temporary workers.

Harvard's Injustice Toward its Workers

Pierre R. Berastaín | Posted 04.01.2013 | Impact
Pierre R. Berastaín

The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), a 4,600 member union comprised of non-faculty staff across Harvard University's campus, has been operating without a contract. For a university that insists on its dedication to social justice, something is missing.