labour

Workers rallying at a minimum wage protest

I’m getting tired of people whining about minimum wage increases

19 May, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nationwide, the push for a higher minimum wage is causing escalating traction: Minimum wages are creeping up across the country to reflect changes in cost of living, fundamental working rights, and the need to address a world in which people working ...

Who took the ‘Working’ out of ‘International Working Women’s Day’?

8 March, 2016 // 0 Comments

New York City, 1909: The Socialist Party of America holds an event commemorating a 1908 strike by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, a labour organisation that played an extremely prominent role in reforming working conditions at ...

Twitter, flashy acts of generosity by CEOs, and patronising the public

18 January, 2016 // 0 Comments

In October 2015, Twitter announced that it was formalizing the role of Jack Dorsey, turning him from the company’s interim CEO into its actual CEO. Shortly thereafter, the company fired 336 people from its operations around the world, citing ...

A person wearing a protective mask at night

Is paid sick leave for federal contractors a gateway drug for everyone?

4 December, 2015 // 0 Comments

An Obama Administration order earlier this year — one of a string that’s in the spirit of give no fucks Obama — mandated that federal contractors provide a minimum of seven days paid sick leave annually for their employees, with employees ...

A wildland firefighter silhouetted against a blaze.

Sending inmates into the jaws of hell as wildland firefighters

27 November, 2015 // 0 Comments

California has an estimated 4,000 prisoners working within Cal Fire on the frontlines of wildfires — taking on one of the most dangerous careers in the United States. Those 4,000 ‘volunteers’ earn a whopping $1 an hour when ...

A staged photo of figurines appearing to mine strawberries.

Why we can’t afford to give work away for free

24 August, 2015 // 0 Comments

Publishing is in a very conflicted and strange state at the moment, as many people have noticed. This goes double for publishing related to social justice, because there are some peculiar notions bound up in the valuation of work done by ...

How about we not judge pregnant people?

7 August, 2015 // 0 Comments

This is the year of fecund friends. Every time I turn around, someone I know is pregnant. I’m starting to fear walking into a room lest my uterus spontaneously sprout a foetus in order to join in the party. I’m very happy for all of ...

You can’t have your union cake and eat it too

29 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

One of the most poorly-understood aspects of unions in the workplace is the closed shop versus open shop dynamic. This is not coincidental — unionbusters very much want to sow the seeds of confusion here. In a closed shop, all employees must be ...

Utilizing unexpected tools to combat farmworker rape

16 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

If you haven’t seen Frontline’s Rape in the Fields, I highly recommend it — the documentary is a detailed and unforgiving look at labour abuses across the US. As the title implies, the primary subject is sexual assault of farmworkers, ...

People holding up signs demanding a higher minimum wage

Is $15 enough?

10 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

The last few years have been witness to an explosion of grassroots labour organising focused on improving conditions for retail, fast food, and other service workers. This is a huge step in a country where workers in general have to fight for every ...

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