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State Hits Walmart Contractor With Wage-Theft Ruling
The state of California has ordered a Southern California warehouse that processes merchandise for Walmart and other retailers to pay 865 workers more than $1 million in stolen wages. The California...
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Court Decision Could Cripple NLRB and Consumer Bureau
Atop the list of landmark laws that conservatives have never particularly warmed to are two that established fundamental rights for workers and consumers: the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, which...
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Workplace Rule: Smile or Else
Most of us have been on both sides of it — receiving a coffee or sandwich from an employee who seems just a little too happy to serve you, or being forced to beam a smile at a rude customer who views...
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Frisco Hyatt: “WHAT Injury-Wracked Housekeepers?”
For years, women who clean rooms at Hyatt hotels have been speaking out against the injuries and hazards they face at work. In a recent press statement, Hyatt denied there is a problem, reducing...
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Fox: Gouge KTTV and KCOP Workers of Hours and Benefits
Since May of 2011, the producers, editors, photographers and other NABET-CWA* workers at KTTV and KCOP-TV in Los Angeles have been trying to negotiate a fair and reasonable contract with the owner of...
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Petition: Walmart-Contract Workers Fear Retaliation
We are workers who move Walmart merchandise at a private warehouse in Chino, California. Just a couple of weeks ago the state of California ordered the warehouse owner to repay us more than $1 million...
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State’s Enterprise Zones Make Rick Perry Look Smart
You have to feel a little bad for Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He came all the way to California this week to “poach jobs” and left empty-handed. Maybe Perry hasn’t read the studies that show very few jobs...
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Protecting Renters From Security Deposit Theft
Tenants Together has launched “It’s Your Money,” a new campaign to stop security deposit theft by California landlords. The campaign website, www.YourDeposit.org, features know-your-rights information...
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University Postdocs Demand Health Care Rights
For the thousands of international students and researchers who come to U.S. universities each year, the academy is seen as a beacon of opportunity, where the people who work the hardest and [have] the...
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How Low Can a Port Trucking Company Go?
It’s almost payday. Imagine if you went to cash your paycheck only to find that your employer had instead billed you for the opportunity to work for them. For drivers at Seacon Logix, paying to work...
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Teamsters Win Election at Runaway Company in Visalia
On February 14, 68 employees of VWR in Visalia voted affirmatively to join Teamsters Local 948 in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. The election punctuates a very high...
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Minimum Wage Foes: Crying Wolf All the Way to the Bank
Chart disproving one industry's prediction of doom. (Click twice for full image.) In her Congressional testimony from 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt noted the repetitive quality of objections raised by...
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ILWU: Waste Management Inc. Targets Immigrant Workers
"Just because we work in a trash dump, doesn't mean we are trash." Hundreds of Waste Management workers belonging to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) struck three facilities...
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Can American Business Get Cooperative?
A new economy is coming. While Wall Street banks are on a trend of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Main Street businesses are generating community wealth while undergoing a transition of their own....
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Five New Reasons Not to Buy Matzah at Walmart
If you’re like me, right now you may be scrambling to stock up on all of your Passover essentials. So what if I told you that you could get 12 boxes of matzah – more than enough to cover the eight...
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Fox KTTV Veep: “Unions = Criminals”
“What do ex-cons and trade unions in California have in common?” With those words, KTTV Fox 11 Vice-President and General Manager Kevin Hale begins his latest editorial criticizing California’s High...
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The Crooked Language Behind Job Misclassifications
“Independent Contractor represents that Independent Contractor is an independent contractor.” I try to cultivate an appreciation for language, linguistic uses and linguistic misuses. I have an...
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Law Proposed to Stop Enterprise Zone Tax Giveaways
State Senator Jerry Hill Imagine a system that gives companies enormous tax breaks for firing workers – and then forces those jobless workers to pay for those tax breaks themselves. It might sound...
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The L.A. Times’ Balancing Act
James Rainey’s L.A. Times story, “Garcetti, Greuel Step Gingerly Around City Labor Issues,” shows the problem with the press’ approach to writing so-called “balanced” stories. Rainey’s story is...
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Community Groups Sue City Over Chinatown Walmart Permits
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) and other community groups took legal action against the proposed Chinatown Walmart today by...
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