In this week’s podcast, my guests help us understand how Amazon and the Supreme Court have a common mission: to undercut the standard of living of millions of people. Amazon’s move to buy Whole Foods means a further big-time cutting of wages for thousands of workers, and a new blow to workers in retailing beyond the […]
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Episode 35: From The Bench and On-Line, Amazon and The Supreme Court Gear Up To Screw The People
Posted on 21 June 2017.
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Jerking Around Workers: Schneiderman Thinking It May Not Be Legal
Posted on 13 April 2015.
Leave it to the managers and executives trying to squeeze the life out of workers to come up with the newest twist in brutal behavior, using the wondrous world of technology (you know, the thing that will save us all and make work even happier…not!) to make it all happen. Essentially, it goes like this: forget a work schedule you know in advance…the Great Wizard behind the work curtain may only decide to bestow upon you, the servant worker, the luck of some work just a few hours before you have to show up for the job.
Except it might be illegal. At least in New York.
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Retail Robbery
Posted on 17 January 2012.
You want to know how your dollars are spent when you buy stuff? It’s not for the wages of the workers who serve you:
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On The Precipice
Posted on 28 January 2009.
If anyone–like obstructionist Republicans–had any doubt that we have no time to waste on the stimulus, we are peering over the edge of the abyss: Furloughs, wage reductions, hiring freezes and shorter hours simply did not do enough. A year into this recession, companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts. Home […]
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Wallets Are Closing
Posted on 09 October 2008.
Yesterday, I said this about what to expect in the near future: One or two or more big retailers go belly up. No one is going to be spending money this holiday season. You know the problem is acute when you read, as I did yesterday in the Financial Times, that Las Vegas is […]
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The Big Box Swindle
Posted on 28 September 2007.
Stacy Mitchell’s eye-opening book, Big-Box Swindle, has just been released in paperback. It’s a book that you’all should read and maybe give as an early holiday gift to your city council and state legislators so they can have the ammunition to shoot down big-box tax advantages and pass new policies that foster equitable and […]
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