worker

Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing

In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their communities’ resources to Mexico. A few workers shouted obscenities at the corporate official. Some …

Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing Read More »

Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’

Just 12 short weeks ago, Mike Hummell found himself in the middle of one of the highest-profile union fights of 2012: the nationwide strike against Hostess Brands. As a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), Hummell hit the picket lines in early November in support of the union’s …

Fired Hostess Worker Becomes One-Man ‘Truth Squad’ Read More »

Workplace Fairness and Wages: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Unpaid Internships

If you asked me about the most significant issue in workplace fairness today, I wouldn’t cite any of the common answers. Although there are widespread issues such as corporate bullying, the wage gap between men and women, and a general lack of freedom among employees, there is one problem that is more widespread and more …

Workplace Fairness and Wages: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Unpaid Internships Read More »

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.