working conditions

Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize

January 20, 2015 By David Bacon

No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.

Black Friday Walmart strikes biggest ever (with video)

December 2, 2014 By Combined Sources

Walmart employees' fight for justice and an end to retaliation reached a new level on Friday, with an estimated 1,600 actions and strikes.

British MPs cry when they tour North Carolina tobacco farm

August 8, 2014 By Mike Hall

Two members of the British Parliament got a first hand look at the deplorable working conditions that thousands of tobacco workers in North Carolina endure.

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik

It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.

McDonald’s to workers: Get a second job and go without heat

July 17, 2013 By John Wojcik

McDonald's aims to "help" its workers who make, on average, $8.25 per hour - not by raising their salaries, but by telling them how to budget their income.