Troublemakers Blog
March 13, 2013 /
Update, April 16: Alex Wassell, fired by Chrysler for organizing opposition to the 10-hour day, is being reinstated.
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Chrysler started what workers at its Warren Stamping Plant are calling the “Awful Work Schedule” Monday—minus one of the local union’s chief agitators against the new plan. »
March 11, 2013 /
Una traducción al español del análisis de Labor Notes de los debates sobre la reforma migratoria.
A Spanish translation of our analysis of the current immigration reform discussions. Pass it on! »
A Spanish translation of our analysis of the current immigration reform discussions. Pass it on! »
March 08, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Fashion models are exposing the obnoxious underside of their supposedly glamorous profession and demanding the same job protections as workers in other fields.
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March 07, 2013 /
Chefs, servers, and porters at Columbia University who are enduring extreme conditions—including 80-hour work weeks—voted February 28 to authorize a strike.
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March 04, 2013 /
Edward Koch has been eulogized, sanitized, and whitewashed by everyone from Bill Clinton to Al Sharpton in his death, but the truth is that he was an historic arch-foe of working class communities. »
March 01, 2013 /
The authors of Beyond the Checklist argue that safety programs must be grounded in workplace democracy to reduce medical errors.
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February 27, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Lately you may have heard a co-worker, or even yourself, muttering “We need our own political party.” Former leaders of the Labor Party are encouraging a discussion of the idea.
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February 25, 2013 /
Auto workers staged a noisy protest against "awful work schedules" that will turn workers' home lives upside down and cheat them out of Saturday overtime pay. Organizer Alex Wassell was indefinitely suspended by Chrysler.
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February 22, 2013 / Jane Slaughter
Short summaries of Labor Notes articles, week of February 18, 2013.
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February 22, 2013 / Alexandra Bradbury
Connecticut nursing home workers who struck against severe takeaways last July are returning to work with a rare victory: a Labor Board injunction has forced their employer to restore their old jobs and contract terms.
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