• info@workplacefairness.org
Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Donate Now

Roger Bybee

Why Is the Recovery So Feeble? Ask (Laid-Off) Public-Sector Workers

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

The slashing of public-sector jobs—concentrated in states Republicans took control in 2010—is accounting for a major slowing of the nation’s economic recovery. In a recent report issued by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), economist Josh Bivens calculated that the U.S. has lost 584,000 government jobs during the recovery, an “unprecedented drag.” Bivens argues that if America had …

Why Is the Recovery So Feeble? Ask (Laid-Off) Public-Sector Workers Read More »

The Great Training Wreck: Job Skills Deficits and Corporate-Backed Tech Schools

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

Worker training has emerged as a major flashpoint between labor and corporate leaders, igniting conflicts over low corporate tax rates, the offshoring of jobs and the low-skilled nature of most future job growth in America. First, corporate leaders have been insisting that a significant part of the unemployment problem is due not to the massive offshoring …

The Great Training Wreck: Job Skills Deficits and Corporate-Backed Tech Schools Read More »

Replacing Factories With Jails: Just 44% of Milwaukee’s Black Men in Workforce

1 Comment / Uncategorized / By

City has lost three-fourths of its manufacturing jobs since 1960s MILWAUKEE—Wisconsin’s economic problems are only deepening the political crisis for Gov. Scott Walker, already the target of a massive recall campaign that gathered 1.1 signatures from Wisconsinites. Despite Walker’s pledge to preside over the creation of 250,000 jobs by 2015, Wisconsin has lost jobs for the past six …

Replacing Factories With Jails: Just 44% of Milwaukee’s Black Men in Workforce Read More »

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

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

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 …

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

Alleged ‘Skills Gap’ Takes Spotlight Off Who’s to Blame for Massive Jobs Shortage

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

Lately, the usual stream of stories about America’s jobs crisis has been displaced by a story about the shortage of crucial skills among the jobless. This new narrative—fed by new studies from corporate sources like Deloitte & Touche—has seemingly displaced information about the plight of the unemployed. Suddenly, stories about the unemployed—except for jobless college graduates …

Alleged ‘Skills Gap’ Takes Spotlight Off Who’s to Blame for Massive Jobs Shortage Read More »

NFL Collision: Management Control vs. Player Safety

Leave a Comment / NFL, workplace safety, workplace violence / By

Here we have a multibillion-dollar industry. Where does their responsibility begin? Say you’re a kid and you sign up to play football. You realize you can blow out your knee, you can even break your neck and become paralyzed. Those are all known risks. But you don’t sign up to become a brain-damaged young adult. …

NFL Collision: Management Control vs. Player Safety Read More »

Copyright © 2023 Workplace Fairness, All rights reserved.

Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Scroll to Top

Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

  • “New York, NY”