Labor

Let's start by aggressively framing the status quo as the outrage that it is.

Many tobacco workers are on H2-A visas, but undocumented workers in other sectors of agriculture often enjoy better rights through unionization.

What we almost never hear, however, is a real discussion of the place most Americans have their freedoms curtailed: the workplace.

The rule of the dictatorship, however, continues.

The new American job: part-time work, part-time pay, part-time living standard.

Paul Buhle talked to Truthout by email recently concerning his 2011 book,

Bain-owned Sensata threatened to retaliate and immediately close their Freeport, Ill plant if workers there don't stop protesting the outsourcing of their jobs to China.

The recent Walmart strikes — beginning first among warehouse workers in California, then spreading to others in Elwood, Illinois, and finally to Walmart retail stores across the United States …

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