Stillwater prison authorities gave 44 incarcerated workers a raise and then, months later, said they had to pay it back. The incarcerated workers say it’s wage theft.
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Curtailing Starbucks’s War on Its Unionized Baristas
The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.
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Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?
How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike
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He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials.
Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa, and husband. His death by hyperthermia is absent from a Tesla report required as part of a Travis County tax deal.
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Writers Face a New Deadline: Their Industry’s Survival
This time, Hollywood’s striking writers think they may just win. Will cross-union solidarity be enough?
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Senators Want Delay in Rural Letter Carrier Pay Program
The Democratic members are trying to stop implementation of a system that could cut worker pay by thousands of dollars.
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Teamsters Begin Major Amazon Fight
A group of unionized delivery drivers in Palmdale, California, could open new possibilities for a legal challenge to Amazon’s subcontracting model.
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In 2023, Everyone Who Can Go Union Is Doing Just That
While employers illegally suppress blue-collar, retail and service workers, professionals and proto-professionals are unionizing in droves.
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America’s Workplace Safety Crisis
Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.
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How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage Jobs
Though the Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban noncompete agreements, other kinds of restrictive covenants perform a very similar function.
