Seattle court strikes blow to Seattle’s effort to unionize Uber drivers. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik has issue a temporary injunction against the city of Seattle’s ordinance permitting Uber drivers to unionize. The lawsuits came from the US Chamber of Commerce and the Freedom [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Labor Exploitation’
May 24th, 2017 - 11:47 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Seattle
May 12th, 2016 - 8:27 am § in Uncategorized
Why there’s e.coli on your chicken
You’ve heard the advice: Always wash food well, then cook it thoroughly, so you don’t get sick or maybe die. But have you wondered why raw food is dangerous? Where the germs come from? “Beyond the low wages and high injury rates, the nation’s roughly 250,000 poultry workers a[...]
November 24th, 2015 - 10:59 am § in America
Nov. 24 in South Carolina: Why do we export jobs to this foreign country?
Is South Carolina A Part of The Union? Now that the government of the Palmetto State has decided that flying the racist flag is in bad taste, perhaps the time has come to decide whether the first state to secede might be asked to do that again? The history of South Carolina as an independent [&hel[...]
September 26th, 2014 - 7:23 pm § in America
Employers Keep Making Life More Difficult For Workers
The retail and food service industries are being revolutionized by new software that allows managers to track real-time sales and fill their labor needs with “just-in-time” scheduling. This practice effectively puts all employees on call. This isn’t to be confused with dispatch sof[...]