The company’s 1,400 striking workers want to replace an unequal two-tier wage system. While Kellogg fights to preserve it, quality and customer loyalty suffer.
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Posted inEducation in America
The Ivy League’s Legitimacy Crisis
Columbia University’s incredible profit bonanza after the pandemic is indicative of a wider problem.
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A Good Day for Labor
Today on TAP: As the EU provides rules for gig workers, young people foul up Kellogg’s strikebreaking plans.
Posted inWorking in America
Just How Exceptional Are the Buffalo Baristas?
They’ve unionized one Starbucks. They symbolize a fed-up proletariat. But does their victory portend anything further?
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The Great Escape
Why workers are quitting their jobs, after the trauma of the pandemic
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Project Censored, Part 1: The New Normal Is More Normalized Censorship
High drug costs, threats to journalists, wildcat strikes, climate debtors, and ‘forever chemicals’ in the oceans: a sobering start to this year’s list of stories you might have missed
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The Strikes Beyond the Barricades at COP26
A wave of strikes in Glasgow exposes the need to center workers in climate policy.
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⏩ Women’s Empowerment and Workers’ Rights in a Post-Pandemic World
Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson moderates an International Labor Organization discussion on empowering women workers.
Posted inWorking in America
Why the Strikes, and What Might They Lead To?
The Great Recession is long gone, but some employers insist that their employees work under recession-era constraints.
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Why I’m Ready to Strike Hollywood
Film crew workers are asking for basic human needs. So far, the major studios haven’t offered them.
