Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six ...
Three current Supreme Court cases will be among the most important workplace discrimination cases in decades and could redefine the rights of LGBT employees across the country. (By Julie Manning Magid, The Conversation) The complicated ...
“His views are dangerously out of the mainstream.” After President Trump officially nominated corporate lawyer Eugene Scalia to serve as secretary of Labor last week, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said his federation of labor unions ...
“Look, our members are still waiting for the supposed greatness of this economy to reach their kitchen tables.” The president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation ...
Due to the strike, about 130 stores of various supermarket chains owned by the company remained closed, while more than 100 operated for half day. (Peoples Dispatch) On July 10, more than 17,000 workers, working ...
The PRO Act would make it easier to form unions and force employers to pay a price for violating workers rights. (By Alan Barber and Liz Watson, Inequality.org) More workers engaged in collective action last ...
Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. ...
“Surging corporate use of forced arbitration has already blocked over half of private-sector nonunion employees from suing when they experience discrimination, harassment, or wage theft.” One year ago the Supreme Court dealt a major blow ...
A series of reforms passed in Hungary is being called the “slave” labor law and sparking thousands to protest. Thousands of people gathered for five consecutive days of protest in Budapest last week to protest ...
A coffee farm in Brazil certified by Starbucks was raided for forcing workers to live and work in conditions officials called similar to slavery. Officials in Brazil raided a coffee plantation and rescued 18 workers ...
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