Looking Under the Hood at the Pasadena Workers’ Center

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Los Angeles    A couple of years ago I spent a fascinating period over almost a year working with Casa de Maryland. They began as a collection of workers’ centers and have become the largest immigration rights statewide organization in the country with huge victories to their credit in winning drivers’ licenses and a state DREAM …

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Redefining Employment Status Is Just Exploitation by Another Name

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 New Orleans     Tech lobbyists, led by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are now spending almost as much as the automobile industry on Washington, DC lobbyists.  That’s not good news for the rest of us.             A lot of the lobbying, according to recent reports, at both the federal, state, and local level is from Uber and the …

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A Demand for Old School Union Reps: Arbitrations!

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New Orleans  The New York Times has run a three-part series on the galloping trend of corporations, both large and small, overtly or slyly forcing consumers and even non-union workers to agree to arbitration procedures that block their access to courts and to joining with others in class action litigation on larger concerns. The stories …

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