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Alabama Agriculture Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers with Prisoners

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ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created a labor shortage in the state. Farmers say crops are rotting in the field and they are in danger of losing their farms by next season. GOP politicians have crowed that …

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A String of Slaughterhouse Successes for UFCW

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Workers at the Farmland Foods meatpacking plant in Carroll, Iowa, make a starting wage of $11 an hour. Workers at a similar plant owned by the same company 25 miles away in Denison, Iowa, make $14.60 an hour, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union. That’s one of the reasons, according to …

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Jobless Rate Drops, But Pain, Despair Persist in Weak Economy

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The headline news on Friday that the unemployment rate in November dropped 0.4 percent to 8.6 percent may help President Obama avoid losing his job next year. But the reality behind the figures will not—and that reality includes a big dose of stress, anger, despair and insecurity even beyond the ranks of the unemployed, according …

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Occupy the Hood: Fighting for Those at the ‘Bottom of the Bottom’

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MILWAUKEE—The “We are the 99%” message of the Occupy movement has provided a unifying umbrella under which people of widely-varied backgrounds can connect their experience of America’s appalling economic and social inequality. One of the most interesting offshoots of the Occupy movement has been the national emergence of the “Occupy the Hood” movement composed of …

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Electrical Workers Use Traditional and Online Organizing in Illinois Sears Win

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Organizing a union is tough enough, given the power employers have over workers and the myriad ways they typically use it to intimidate workers who want to join a union. But organizing workers who don’t spend most of their working hours together building community and trust, but are out in separate locations working on their …

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Doing it Their Way: Government Layoffs Worsening Unemployment

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There is new evidence of the cost of right-wing austerity policies in the latest report on downsizing activity from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which headlines the fact that there have been more layoffs in the first 11 months of 2011 than in all of 2010. A key reason, according to the report: …

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Housekeepers Charge Hyatt Fired Them for Taking Down Their Own Photos

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Becoming a pin-up without your permission: another downside of workplace autocracy Passing through the halls one day in September, Martha Reyes stopped to see why a group of her Hyatt co-workers stood laughing in front of a bulletin board. Looking closer, she saw photos of her head, and those of other housekeeping employees, pasted onto …

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Politics Affect Unionization Rates, Study Finds

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If union density is declining in the United States (and it is), it’s because unions can’t compete in the global economy, right? That’s the story we’re often told, anyway, but a new Center for Economic and Policy Research report says that actually, politics plays a major role (PDF). The CEPR study compares 21 countries with rich …

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Airport Workers Say Pay Is Illegally Low

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Every day she goes to work at O’Hare International Airport, Elda Burke faces the same dilemma. Burke, 30, works as a passenger attendant at the airport, escorting the elderly and disabled to and from their gates by wheelchair. Even though the airlines describe this as a free service, Burke’s employer has her working partly for …

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No Super Committee Deal. Good. Now Focus On Jobs—Best Way To Lower Deficit

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The reason members of the Super Committee didn’t reach an agreement is that Republican members insisted on damaging cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicare – AND they wouldn’t budge from their refusal to roll back tax cuts for the richest 1% of Americans. If the so-called “Super Committee” had made a bi-partisan deal based …

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Alabama Agriculture Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers with Prisoners

A String of Slaughterhouse Successes for UFCW

Jobless Rate Drops, But Pain, Despair Persist in Weak Economy

Occupy the Hood: Fighting for Those at the ‘Bottom of the Bottom’

Electrical Workers Use Traditional and Online Organizing in Illinois Sears Win

Doing it Their Way: Government Layoffs Worsening Unemployment

Housekeepers Charge Hyatt Fired Them for Taking Down Their Own Photos

Politics Affect Unionization Rates, Study Finds

Airport Workers Say Pay Is Illegally Low

No Super Committee Deal. Good. Now Focus On Jobs—Best Way To Lower Deficit

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