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Original Technorati articles tagged “workers rights”

• in Business
  Riot Breaks out in Foxconn Factory
  Riots have broken out at a Foxconn factory.
  by cmimanagers / on Sep 24, 2012
• in Politics
  Occupy Oakland Votes Overwhelmingly in Favor of A General Strike
  1600 Vote to Halt All Production Nov 2nd
  by daretoeatapeach / on Oct 27, 2011
• in TV
  American Experience Marks Centennial of Triangle Fire, February 28
  Sometimes we need to look back and see from whence we’ve come.
  by missbobetier / on Feb 24, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “workers rights”

 

• Finally, Some Retailers Agree to Improve Sweatshop Conditions

  
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  Several major retailers (not Walmart, Target, Gap) have signed an accord for better safety conditions for workers in Bangladeshs garment industry.
  4 days ago

• Work life balance… sort of…

  
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  For an example of how workplaces are changing in the contemporary period there’s no better example than the statistic earlier in the month that 80% of Irish employees access social media at work. Okay, the report by William Fry law firm, is not perhaps quite as scientific as might be hoped for, but purely anecdotal ...
  4 days ago

• Turkey Factory Abused Disabled Workers for 20 Years

  
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  32 men with intellectual disabilities have been awarded over $240 million in damages for severe abuse and discrimination endured while working for over 20 years in a turkey evisceration plant in Iowa.
  1 week ago

• Strawberry Workers Fired for Seeking Shelter During Wildfire

  
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  With heavy smoke from a huge wildfire in southern California filling the air, more than a dozen farm workers left the fields where they were picking strawberries last week, sought shelter indoors and were fired when they returned the next day.
  1 week ago

• "Organizers say that over a hundred workers joined the St. Louis strike between Wednesday and..."

  
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  “Organizers say that over a hundred workers joined the St. Louis strike between Wednesday and Thursday. That included a group of Jimmy John’s workers who alleged that management humiliated them by requiring them to hold up signs in public with messages including “I made 3 wrong sandwiches today” and “I was ...
  1 week ago

• Fair Trade Labeling for Garment Manufacturers

  
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  Edinburgh   With the death count from the Bangladesh factory collapse now over 800,   many, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are calling for “fair-trade standards or labeling” for clothing produced around the world.   The argument for such standards and labeling would be to communicate directly ...
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• Adidas Expanding SMS Complaint Hotline

  
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  Adidas expands its Complaint hotline working to improve operations
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• The cost of our clothes

  
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  The cost of our clothes by karol When I was growing up in the 60s, my mother used to make most of our clothes.  By the time I was in my late teens, in the 60s, it became easier to buy relatively cheap, off the peg clothes in shops.  Many people now know nothing else.  These days. most of those clothes are made ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congratulations EPMU

  
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  Congratulations EPMU by IrishBill The EPMU has won back millions of dollars of back-pay for workers at Tiwai point after taking a case at the employment authority. The authority concluded that the comapny was required to pay 12 hours of leave for leave days rather than the eight they had been paying. The issue ...
  2 weeks ago

• The cost of a US Harvard education: global land exploitation

  
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  The cost of a US Harvard education: global land exploitation by karol US publicly funded universities  struggle to get the funds they need to maintain their educational programmes (CNN 05/05/13).  Many resort to endowment investments to raise some necessary funds.  The “Ivy League” Harvard University ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Are Your Rights If You Are Injured On The Job?

  
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  Iowa City “Know Your Rights” series:  What are my rights if I’m injured on the job? Monday, May 6, 6-8pm, Faith UCC Church, 1609 DeForest Avenue, Iowa City The Center for Worker Justice (CWJ) of Eastern Iowa is hosting a series of workshops open to low-income people and their allies in the Iowa City ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unions - Not Just For Blue Collar Workers

  
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  Even white collar workers need their rights protected : Nothing scrambles the conventional wisdom on contemporary class politics in the US like a white-collar strike. In our neoliberal era, we’re told that unions might have once been appropriate for the soot-faced and burly proletarians of the 1930s. But since most ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Key’s NZ: the nasty side of the “brighter future”

  
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  John Key’s NZ: the nasty side of the “brighter future” by karol John Key promised a “brighter future” for NZ: one where they wouldn’t wave good-bye to loved ones heading to Australia; one where he would require a higher standard of his MPs; one where he wouldn’t deliberately avoid telling the truth ...
  2 weeks ago

• 127th Commemoration of the Bay View Tragedy

  
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  Never forget... Click image to embiggen
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• Political vision?

  
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  Political vision? by karol What amounts to “good” vision as part of a political campaign? Is it only in the mind of the holder and skewed by their political position? Or is it a vision that appeals to the majority, in spite of whether they lean left, right, or to a different place form the left-right ...
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• West, Bangladesh & Forgetting May Day — The US is becoming the first “de-developed” nation

  
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  West, Bangladesh & Forgetting May Day — The US is becoming the first “de-developed” nation Yesterday was the first of May, or as it is known throughout most of the industrialized world, May Day. In most places it is celebrated as International Workers’ Day and most laborers have the day off. Though, if ...
  2 weeks ago

• For whom the economy recovers

  
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  This isnt new, but it shows income inequality keeps getting progressively worse every day. In short, our current obsessed-with-profits philosophy is creating a country of a few million overlords (shareholders) and 300+ million serfs (employees). It is also resulting in employees sharing less of the corporate ...
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• Senate action required to maintain the NLRB

  
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  The federal agency charged with protecting employees’ rights to collectively improve their job standards is in limbo. That’s great news for unscrupulous employers who want to take advantage of workers, but it serves as a wake-up call for those of us who care about workers’ rights. In January 2013, the U.S. ...
  3 weeks ago

• In My Humble Opinion

  
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  There are certain things – injustices if you will, that continue to bother me, and frankly burn my cookies. Therefore, to find out how other Vancouverites are feeling, I am going to throw out some suggestions and rants on some of these major issues that bug my brain, such as:   1. TRANSIT : Downtown ...
  3 weeks ago

• May Day Seattle

  
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  smells like sun in seattle mañana looks like May Day in seattle mañana sun in seattle can sound like that hasta mañana seattle *** Filed under: activism, Art, economy, journalism, media, Photography, seattle, The Homeland, Washington State Tagged: ILWU, immigration reform, May Day, may day words, photography, ...
  3 weeks ago

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