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VOTERS SUPPORT HOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR LABOR CONTRACTING ABUSES

Leave a Comment / corporations, Independant Contractors, Workers / By max cyril

Recent polling confirms that voters who live in battleground districts overwhelmingly want their Congressional representatives to hold corporations accountable to the workers who build their business and their wealth. Voters want legislators to make it harder for companies to call workers “independent contractors”; they want lawmakers to discourage companies from contracting with temp and staffing …

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FAIR Act Will Help Enforce Workers’ Rights and Ability to Join Together and Fight Back Against Employer and Corporate Wrongdoing

Leave a Comment / arbitration, corporations / By max cyril

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) applaudsCongressman Hank Johnson, along with 155 cosponsors, for introducing the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act of 2021. The FAIR Act would end corporations’ imposition of forced arbitration and class/collective action waivers in employment and civil rights cases, restoring the rights of workers to seek accountability from their employers for …

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Big corporations suck the marrow out of the COVID-19 economy, leaving devastation behind them

Leave a Comment / corporations, layoffs, Uncategorized / By max cyril

What’s the use of a crisis if big corporations and wealthy people can’t use it to make more money, preferably at the expense of those with less than them? I ask you! Well, by that standard, the coronavirus pandemic has worked out quite well. A large majority of the biggest publicly traded companies were profitable …

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Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

Leave a Comment / Capitalism, corporations, health insurance, Living Wage / By max cyril

Millions of full-time, adult workers in the United States?—?many of them employed by Walmart, McDonald’s and other highly profitable corporations?—?are paid wages so low they’re forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet. That is the key finding of a newly released report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I?Vt.), the …

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Corporations & the Pandemic Killing Fields; Taking a Cleaver to the Pentagon Budget

Leave a Comment / corporations / By max cyril

Big companies don’t give a second thought to making big profits during the COVID-19 pandemic even if that means thousands of workers—and their families—will get sick and die from the virus. Actually, it’s a feature not a bug, no pun intended—in food processing, all those workers who make sure you get beef or chicken on …

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What Uber and the Koch Brothers Have in Common: A Plan to Destroy Public Transit

Leave a Comment / corporations / By max cyril

At first glance, the rideshare corporation Uber couldn’t appear more different than conservative oil-mogul billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch. Uber has hired numerous former Democratic Party campaign managers and lobbyists and the company’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has publicly criticized the Trump administration, including over the travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries. The Kochs, …

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Wisconsin’s Foxconn Deal Enriches Billionaires With Taxpayer Cash

Leave a Comment / corporations / By max cyril

Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou every once in a while likes to think “outside the box.” Back in 2010, for instance, the giant electronics manufacturer that Gou runs — Foxconn — was facing what corporate flacks like to call a major “PR problem.” Working conditions inside Foxconn’s massive Chinese factories had become so incredibly stressful that …

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VOTERS SUPPORT HOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR LABOR CONTRACTING ABUSES

FAIR Act Will Help Enforce Workers’ Rights and Ability to Join Together and Fight Back Against Employer and Corporate Wrongdoing

Big corporations suck the marrow out of the COVID-19 economy, leaving devastation behind them

Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

Corporations & the Pandemic Killing Fields; Taking a Cleaver to the Pentagon Budget

What Uber and the Koch Brothers Have in Common: A Plan to Destroy Public Transit

Wisconsin’s Foxconn Deal Enriches Billionaires With Taxpayer Cash

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