Showing posts with label U.S. Job Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Job Market. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Silicon Valley company busted for paying Indian workers $1.21 an hour in America

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I found this story through the Huffington Post, with this story also showing up on the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and Yahoo News.   ...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Are we relying too much on apps to do our chores?

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This is from Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times: Near the top of the list of tiresome tasks that the Internet has yet to solve is t...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

One-third of American workforce working freelance

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I found this Reason Magazine story through the Washington Monthly, with the final source coming from this report Freelancing in America.  ...
Monday, September 01, 2014

More companies engaged in employee wage theft

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I found this New York Times story via the Huffington Post .  Appropriate for Labor Day: MIRA LOMA, Calif. — Week after week, Guadalup...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Two stories on net worth loss by the poor, and minimum wage loss from inflation

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I found a couple of stories that I wanted to comment on.  The first is this story by Kevin Drum, showing a real eye-opening chart on the Gr...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Work scheduling software creates havoc on low wage employees' lives

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I found this NY Times story on both Daily Kos , and Kevin Drum: SAN DIEGO — In a typical last-minute scramble, Jannette Navarro, a 22-...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

UPS fires 250 workers after they protest against a long-time co-worker's firing

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I'm not sure how to respond to this NewYork Daily News story, via Think Progress.   From the New York Daily News: UPS has delivered...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Target's new, anti-union video

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I found this Gawker story , via Daily Kos.   From Gawker.com: Target is America's third-largest retailer. It is also as staunchly ant...

Welcome to Just-In-Time Retail--Otherwise known as On-Call Scheduling

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I found this Nation story: A century ago, the misery of New York’s urban poor was embodied by the iconic scene of the morning shape-up at...
Monday, March 10, 2014

McDonald's manager tells worker to "Put a bullet" in her head

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I found this story through the Daily Kos, which links to an MSNBC story:   Workers rallied at a Chicago McDonald’s Saturday afternoon ...