Troublemakers Blog
July 14, 2014 /
It’s not often that a business professor at an elite university argues in favor of investing in workers. So a new book on what Costco and Trader Joe's do right is useful... but also frustrating, for what it leaves out.
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July 10, 2014 /
How are "rideshare" startups getting away with flouting taxi regulations? Over cabbies' objections, they're worming their way into cities in the U.S. and Europe—because money talks.
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July 08, 2014 / Alexandra Bradbury
Port truckers organizing with the Teamsters in Los Angeles and Long Beach are showing their growing leverage. This time their minority strike shut down one of the L.A. port's biggest terminals.
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July 03, 2014 /
Economist Thomas Piketty's new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century offers plenty of ammunition activists can use to expose inequality's scope and force. But don't look to him for solutions.
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June 27, 2014 /
This California health care union is calling for state regulations to beef up hospital security and reporting of assaults, after a survey found one in eight members faced violence on the job daily.
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June 16, 2014 /
After multiple bounced paychecks and never getting the pay rate they were promised, signature-gatherers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job and marched on their campaign headquarters.
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June 12, 2014 /
Fifth-tier auto workers at the Big 3 are “independent contractors”—in other words, day labor.
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June 06, 2014 / Samantha Winslow
As an antidote to the “grow grow grow” mentality of the elected officials and business leaders pushing charter schools, a recent report by University of Oregon professor and political economist Gordon Lafer outlines what’s wrong with privatization of public schools. »
June 04, 2014 /
Berry pickers in Washington State went on multiple strikes last year, demanding justice for a fired co-worker, 70 cents per pound of berries picked, and an end to sexist and racist harassment by their supervisors. Management responded by trying to break their union and replace them »