Towards a Creditor State: One in Seven Americans Pursued by Debt Collectors nakedcapitalism ...There are now thousands of people legally jailed because they aren’t paying their bills, ie. debtor’s prisons have returned...
Threatened Goldman Japan workers unionize Japan Times ...At Goldman Sachs Japan, things became so unusual that some of its staff even took the remarkable step of unionizing after the firm's attempts to force workers to voluntarily resign — and thus sidestep the notoriously tough restrictions on layoffs under Japanese labor law — apparently backfired...
Controversy over Scientology influence clouds future of Pinellas charter school Tampa Bay Times ...Some parents and former teachers at Life Force, which receives about $800,000 a year in public funding, say the Pinellas County charter school has become a Scientology recruiting post targeting children...
Indiana Speaker of the House Brian Bosma Moonlighting as a Union-Busting Attorney? We Party Patriots ...Isn’t “hiring, disciplining, and terminating public employees” union-busting? Isn’t mediation of “employee civil right claims” and “contract disputes” by the House Speaker for a private firm a little bit of an issue?...
Walker Using Out-of-State Tea Party Group to Indirectly Challenge Recall PR Watch ..."Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals,” he wrote. “It is profoundly anti-social and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country."...
New York Motor Truck Says 'Fair Play Act' Anything But Trucking Info ...in New York State between 2002 and 2005, nearly 40,000 employers misclassified more than 700,000 workers...
IATSE and Teamsters picket producers of '1000 Ways to Die' Los Angeles Times ...“1000 Ways to Die” has become the latest flash point in an effort by Hollywood's leading unions to extend contracts to the rapidly growing cable TV sector...
Unions reveal 'serious concerns' over National Express' human rights approach Fresh Business Thinking ...Over the course of a decade serious concerns have been raised over the negative human rights and labour relations record of National Express Group’s US private school bus transportation subsidiary, Durham School Services...
