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• LL Bean Responds with Grace

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 417
  Bama Athreya, Executive Director, ILRF   Just in time for Thanksgiving, the outdoor clothing brand LL Bean has made a significant commitment to work with ILRF to end forced child labor in cotton.  Last week, we released our Sweatshop Hall of Shame , and to our surprise, were compelled to name LL Bean as one ...
  2 days ago

• 1 day off per week, hold own passport, task force...agreed between Indonesia and Malaysia for Domestic Workers. But really still not enough

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 132
  So, it seems that Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to the following:- * One(1) day off per week * Migrant workers will hold on to their own passport [Not the employers] * Malaysian government will also form a special task force in charge of controlling and monitoring rough treatment of  migrant workers There is ...
  6 days ago

• American and Chinese Students Fight for Rights of Workers

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 129
  by Paul Garver American student anti-sweatshop activists have won their first major victory in a decade-long campaign against sweatshop conditions and repression of labor unions in Central America. Russell Athletic, largest supplier of campus team uniforms and logo-wear, fired 145 union supporters and shut down a ...
  6 days ago

• Student Anti-Sweatshop Activists Score Big Win for Honduran Workers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
        In what is being hailed as the biggest victory ever by student anti-sweatshop activists, Russell Athletic, the largest supplier of team uniforms and logo-wear, has agreed to reopen a Honduran factory shut down in January shortly after its workers formed a union and will rehire the 1,200 union ...
  1 week ago

• serial killer targets “a certain profile of a woman”

  
  Bound, Not Gagged — Authority: 112
  I am so upset.  Again, women have been assaulted, raped and murdered by a serial killer: Again, the “justice system” has turned a blind eye.  A blind eye to a women who was “bleeding and injured” because she wasn’t “credible.”  Read: a prostitute. While this article does not use the exact term ...
  1 week ago

• Belle Revealed....

  
  The Mouth on Wheels — Authority: 108
  So, yesterday morning I accidentally glanced at a tabloid (I try not to as they offend my eyes and my brain so intensely) to find that the true identity of Belle De Jour, the author of the blog Diary of a Call Girl has been revealed. Im sorry that she was pressured by the possible actions of an ex to come out, and Im ...
  1 week ago

• Las Vegas Wobblies Rally Against Chipotle in Support of Exploited Farmworkers (pics)

  
  EYEAM4ANARCHY — Authority: 445
  C lick on any of the pictures for the full-size images During the weekend of November 6-8 members of the Las Vegas Industrial Wo rkers of the World, in conjunction with Food Not Bombs Las Vegas and Southern NV ALL , attended the L iving Without Borders encuentro sponsored by the United Coalition for ...
  1 week ago

• Open Invitation to the Int’l Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

  
  Bound, Not Gagged — Authority: 112
  In 2009, sex workers from around the globe met gruesome deaths and endured unspeakable violence. Some died at the hands of a solitary perpetrator; others were victims of serial “prostitute killers.” While some of these horrific stories received international media attention ( Boston, Grand Rapids ,  Tijuana , ...
  1 week ago

• Rachel Maddow takes on corporations defending child and forced labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 417
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Recently, Rachel Maddow picked up on an article written by David Sirota about how business groups are lobbying against provisions in a customs bill that contains provisions banning the importation of goods produced by convict labor, forced labor or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sex Workers and Unpersons.

  
  Bound, Not Gagged — Authority: 112
  I haven’t written here in a while.  I spent the last few months in a wheelchair, and then healing from being in the wheelchair, and now being sick the past month and finally getting treated for pneumonia.  But I’m coming out of that now, and I’m moving forward.  These experiences has given me so much to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• If there are NO unions at the workplace, will workers (including migrant workers) be allowed to form a union?

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 132
  Should workers be allowed to organize? Should they be allowed to form unions, associations, clubs, societies, etc...? Of course, workers should be allowed to organize .... form unions or associations. One of the functions of these associations and unions would be to look into the welfare of workers, and by welfare, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What does Krafts proposed takeover of Cadbury mean for workers?

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 417
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum The businesses world is buzzing over the news that Kraft has made a hostile takeover bid for Cadbury.  For weeks, there has been plenty of back and forth between the two companies in the media and Kraft finally placed its $16.3 billion bid for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Donna Hughes and the anti rights activists victory in Rhode Island

  
  Bound, Not Gagged — Authority: 112
  Recently URI Professor Donna Hughes lead a successful campaign to criminalize indoor sex workers in Rhode Island. She and her allies championed this in the legislature as their great David Vs. Goliath battle and a resounding victory for women and trafficking victims. However, this “victory” in actuality means ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pulling out, and it’s about time

  
  Mahmood's Den — Authority: 425
  I applaud the Indonesian government for doing something concrete to protect their citizens, even resorting to a ban against some Middle Eastern countries form employing them owing to the various abuses they suffered from.I wonder if other labour exporters will do likewise. And if they do, I think we will be in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Good Word for Big Farms

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 673
  Agricultural workers may be better off at large-scale farms than at small ones.
  3 weeks ago

• Asia Cast for Friday 30th October

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 126
  500 former bank employees protest their dismissals. In this Bulletin… - Former Beijing bank employees protest buyouts; - Mongolia nominates new prime minister; and - Indonesia could expel refugees. But first, here’s our SOH focus on China ********************** Over 500 former bank employees who lost their ...
  4 weeks ago

• For a four-day week

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 600
  As an advocate of time-sovereignty and leisure , I naturally favour a shorter working week. Our time is valuable, and the more of it we get to spend on ourselves rather than waste working for other people having to earn a living, the better. Unfortunately, the economy is structured around a five-day working week, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sunday’s meeting

  
  happy endings? You Can't Clap with One Hand — Authority: 112
  On Sunday, October 25th, over 30 women from spas through out Rhode Island met to discuss the pending legislation on prostitution in Rhode Island.  You can read about it in the Projo , and at the Huffington Post .  The article on the Huffingston Post was written by Rep. David Segal who was at the meeting. I was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Las Vegas Attorney Seeks to Aid Brothel Workers

  
  Bound, Not Gagged — Authority: 112
  By way of the Sex Workers’ Virtual Community , attorney Leon Greenberg is offering to represent brothel workers on a contingency basis for unfair labor practices.  He appears to be teh real deal and here’s what he says about himself: I am an attorney who represents employees who are not paid proper overtime ...
  4 weeks ago

• Giving the finger to the labour movement

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 600
  So, the day after Labour Day , the government introduces legislation to steal your meal and rest breaks . Talk about giving the finger to the labour movement. The bill will replace the existing statutory rights to meal and rest breaks with a vague requirement for "reasonable" and "appropriate" breaks which may ...
  4 weeks ago

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