What’s a worker’s life worth? To you and me, it’s priceless. Capitalism, though, doesn’t see it that way—a worker’s life is a cost of doing business, a life easily disposable when it comes to making profits. And the corporate world has an accomplice in this immoral scam where workers are disposable: the Occupational Safety and […]
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Episode 199: We Have A Price For A Worker’s Life: A Few Thousand Bucks; COVID-19 Dangers For Building Workers
Posted on 16 September 2020.
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Episode 75: Stealing Tips, Not! Big Airport Wage Hike, Yes! Texas Going Blue in 32nd?
Posted on 28 March 2018.
The gall of greedy employers never seems to end, right? This time it shows up in the restaurant biz where the other NRA—the National Restaurant Association–was trying to get its hands on waiters’ tips. I talk to Judy Conti, a key leader in the successful battle to slap down that money grab. I, then, […]
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Airline Justice
Posted on 12 May 2014.
Nah, I’m not talking about cheaper tickets or seats that are actually comfortable. Something more consequential, if you want to take the broader good view: fingers crossed but looks like a few thousands NYC-area airport workers will be unionized.
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Total Victory For Doormen
Posted on 21 April 2010.
It’s rare that we get to read about a total victory for workers in a contract fight. But, you can’t read this any other way: The talks went right up to the midnight strike deadline, as they often have in the past, with the union resisting the owners’ demands for cuts in health care […]
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Clock Ticking for Doormen
Posted on 21 April 2010.
We’ll know soon whether there will be a strike of the doormen and other services workers in NYC. Check the background and ways to support the union here.
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Thursday MishMash
Posted on 21 December 2007.
Here are a few things that caught my eye. #1: Good riddance, Tom Tancredo–but do the Democrats understand the political implications of immigration in 2008? So, Tancredo, the odious member of Congress, is apparently dropping out of the presidential race, having registered barely a blip in the pretty weird and crazy Republican field. […]
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Thursday MishMash
Posted on 21 December 2007.
Here are a few things that caught my eye. #1: Good riddance, Tom Tancredo–but do the Democrats understand the political implications of immigration in 2008? So, Tancredo, the odious member of Congress, is apparently dropping out of the presidential race, having registered barely a blip in the pretty weird and crazy Republican field. […]
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