Hampton O'Hare Housekeepers Ratify Contract with Annual Raises Teamsters Local 727 ...Teamsters Local 727 representatives secured significant annual wage increases for the 18-member bargaining unit...
Teansters at Darigold Overwhelmingly Approve New Contract Teamsters Local 117 ...Teamster production workers and lab technicians, employed by Darigold, have overwhelmingly ratified a new labor agreement that provides wage increases, health care protections, and retirement security for 220 workers and their families...
My week as one of Amazon's HUMAN drones: Revealed, what it's REALLY like to work in online warehouse and Santa's grotto it ain't Daily Mail ...Shops employ 47 people for every $10 million (£6 million) in sales, according to research done by a company called ILSR. Amazon employs only 14 people per $10 million of revenue.
Listen Up, Budget Cutters. Austerity Can Lead to Blood on the Streets, Even in America Alternet ... economic shocks alone are not enough to cause people to flip out. It’s the way governments respond to them that sets the stage for blood in the streets...
Report: Most people in poverty have jobs Salon ...A new report in the U.K. decimates the tired right-wing myth that poor people are in poverty because they don’t work...
California business group uses “job killer” list to help Wal-Mart Salon ...Bills deemed hurtful to businesses have a tendency to go nowhere in the state Legislature...
Unemployment IS Down: When Good News Really Isn’t truthdig ...for every person who found a job between September and November, three other people stopped looking...
Obama Trade Deal Faces Backlash Over New Corporate Political Powers Huffington Post ...The Obama administration appears to have almost no international support for controversial new trade standards that would grant radical new political powers to corporations, increase the cost of prescription medications and restrict bank regulation, according to two internal memos obtained by The Huffington Post...
Don’t Believe the Spin from ALEC Center for Media and Democracy ...This year, ALEC began stamping the materials it gives to legislators with a “disclaimer” asserting that the documents are not subject to any state’s open records/freedom of information laws, despite the laws in many states that have long required lawmakers to disclose communications from outside groups and constituents...
Don’t Be Evil? Google Funding a Slew of Right-Wing Groups Bill Moyers ...Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers...
NSA spying hurts business of large U.S. hardware makers USA Today ...in China … IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and, most notably, Cisco Systems have reported substantial drops in sales since the NSA surveillance program came to light...
Hell on Wings - Cellphones Don't Belong on Planes (opinion) truthout ...Cardiologist Sarah Speck, who runs the heart program at Seattle's Swedish Hospital, tells me that "we need our downtime." She says the stress of workplace demands, exacerbated by constant connectivity, is "the new tobacco" in American society, leading to earlier onset of heart disease, which she is now seeing in patients in their 40s...
Busted and Bankrupt Detroit Can Now Wipe Out Worker Pensions Economic Populist ...While the damage has been building by ineffective, hoodwinked and even obviously corrupt city officials, the deal which broke Detroit's financial back was with, you guessed it, the banks. Specifically interest rate swaps along with derivative based loans is what did the city in and guess who originated these loans? Bank of America, UBS and Merrill Lynch...
