New Orleans There are twenty-one states where workers are still frozen at something equivalent to the federal minimum wage at $7.25. Those states are disproportionately better “red than fed” in the South and West with a smattering in the Midwest and even the Northeast. I’m not saying there are any surprises here, but the …
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By the Way, Workers Are Still Dying on the Job Daily!
Little Rock On Wade’s World, I visited recently with Jonathan Karmel about safety on the job for workers. Karmel is 35-year, Chicago-based, labor side lawyer at Phillips Law Offices who after years in the legal trenches for unions, had an epiphany when he realized the continuing dangers faced by workers trying to make a living …
Sweating Labor in the Gig Economy and People by Tech
New Orleans In a piece about climate change, one author quoted a commonplace statement that the corporate business model in a capitalist economy puts no inherent value on public resources like land, air, and water, so that the costs are for acquisition, extraction, marketing, and delivery without concern for the after affects like global …