Tag: Labor

By Steve Carlson and Lynn Sutherland Jaskowiak One of the bloodiest days in American labor history occurred on the outskirts of Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on Friday, September 10th, 1897. Roughly 400 anthracite coal miners ( the vast majority of them foreign born eastern Europeans) had had enough of the darkened servitude…

The LA Times is running an opinion piece suggesting that Governor Walker is about to do away with the weekend! And essentially he is: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading aspirant for the Republican nomination for president, made his state the 25th “right-to-work” state in the nation on March 9…

Despite the illusions being cast by Republicans in Madison, Wisconsinites already possess the right to work…they can apply for any job they want…they can accept any job offered to them…they can negotiate any pay/benefit package they are willing to accept…they can accept or not accept any promotions offered…they can quit…

In an investigation and negotiation with Wal-Mart over alleged abusive labor practices that have been ongoing since November of 2013, the NLRB has finally brought charges against the retailer: The NLRB said the retailer illegally fired, disciplined or threatened more than 60 employees in 14 states for participating in legally…

The new GOP Runs as fast and as far from Scott Walker as they can! H/T Politico: Rob McKenna, the two-term attorney general who is aiming to become the Evergreen State’s first Republican governor in more than 30 years, told a gathering of Puget Sound Carpenters last week that he’ll…

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” — Abraham Lincoln in his first Annual Message to Congress, December 3,…

There’s been a lot of chatter about this article from The New York Times on Apple’s move to China for their manufacturing.  But there is an underreported backstory here involving the management of these factories and the workers whose lives are ruined by Apple, Dell and other American electronics manufacturers….

Evidently not.  Sure, the Wisconsin unemployment rate was at 7.4% in April, which is low compared to the national figures.  I guess I’m a bit more concerned than the Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature.  Unemployment in Racine is 8.9%.  Those Republicans, at the behest of special interests, have decided to…