All 89 articles by Emily Udell
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Will Apple Feel Any Heat for Violations of Its Own Labor Code?
While scanning whichever apps you use to track news on your iPhone this past weekend, you may have...
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies: Lufthansa Pilots Strike
There’s no doubt it’s been a bad year for workers in the airline industry....
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Around the Country, State Employees Rally Against Furloughs, Pay Cuts
State workers in West Virginia spent Presidents Day staging a rally at the capitol to ask for a $1,000...
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Conn. Workers Ground Company’s Plans to Fly Jobs Overseas
Machinists at two Connecticut airplane engine repair facilities won a major battle in their fight to prevent the...
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Calif. Mineworkers Locked Out After Contract Rejection
A southern California town is on edge after a mining company locked out more than 500 employees and hired...
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LA Hospital Vote Deals Blow to SEIU (Updated)
At least two bargaining units at LA Medical Center vote for NUHW An indication of the state of...
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Thousands of Chilean Miners Strike for Better Wages, Benefits
Nearly 3,000 striking workers at Chile’s biggest copper mining firm will attempt to resolve a dispute over...
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Mining Programs Provide Job Training for Inmates. But Are They Worth It?
Some Indiana inmates might get the chance to swap their prison jumpsuits for coal miners’ hats when...
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A Penny for Our Work: Florida Farmworkers Protest Grocer
Farmworkers in South Florida took to the streets over the weekend as part of a continued campaign to...
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Another Slaughterhouse Hazard: Pig Brain Mist
"Aerosolised porcine brain." The mere words make me shiver. A report released yesterday by the British jounal The...
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Struggling Vermont Dairies Shaken by Federal Subpoenas
Vermont is a state that rarely pops up in labor news, but the Green Mountain State’s...
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Hyatt Continues Catching Flack over Fired Boston Workers
Hyatt's efforts to woo fired housekeepers back have been mostly unsuccessful, with only six taking up the hotelier's...
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High-Class Hotels in San Fran Face Cascade of Walkouts
Workers at a luxury hotel in San Francisco walked off the job today, beginning a three-day strike. The...
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Stronger Workplace Democracy for Airline and Rail Industries?
A rule proposed by the federal National Mediation Board Monday could go a long way toward easing the...
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Hotel Owner Bans Spanish—And Workers Fight Back
Change your name and don’t speak Spanish. These are the appalling directives a proprietor of a...
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In America’s ‘RV Capital,’ Another Blow for Workers
Poor Elkhart. Thousands of workers in the northern Indiana town known as a RV manufacturing hub found themselves...
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On Columbus Day, Workers Challenge N.H., Calif. Governors
It was an eventful Columbus Day for state workers on both sides of the country. New Hampshire government...
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John Deere Workers Sign Major Deal Barring Factory Closures
A contract affecting some 9,500 workers and 17,000 retirees at the world’s largest farm machinery manufacturer was ratified...
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A Survivor’s Story of Trafficking and Slavery
When Mimin came to the United States from Indonesia, she expected to work as a housekeeper for a...
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Maintenance Workers Fight for Lost Wages in Chicago
When Eladio Perez and Roberto Jacinto were hired by the Builders Center of Chicago, they agreed on an...
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Carnival Guest Workers Win Back Wages, Better Living Conditions
A recent settlement between Dreamland Amusements and its workers aims to send a message to carnival operators: exploitation...
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Older Unemployed Workers Marginalized in Recession
While catching up on the news coverage of workers’ issues on Labor Day, I ran across a...
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Workers Take Fight to Wells Fargo, but Police Turn Them Away
Workers from a Quad City factory who are fighting Wells Fargo for unpaid wages and benefits were turned...
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Finally, Good News for Workers: AT&T, Unions Reach Deals
The largest employer of union labor in the country reached an agreement this weekend with some 10,000 of its...
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Bill Would ‘Professionalize’ Gang Intervention Workers
Leaders in Los Angeles announced this week a plan to introduce legislation that would create standards for those...
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Tough Times Threaten Day Labor Centers
When the housing market crashed and burned, Arizona was among the hardest hit states in the nation. And...
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In the Big Easy, Workers’ Advocates Fight for Wage Theft Law
David Moberg recently blogged on this site about efforts to crack down on wage theft at the federal...
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Anti-Poverty Conference Works to Build ‘Unsettling Force’
The first ever joint conference between the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Social...
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No Legal Relief for Coal Miner Suffering Black Lung
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an eastern Kentucky coal miner charging that the...
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Hospital Flacks Spread Fake News
Journalists' groups are concerned about broadcast outlets using video news releases produced by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers
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Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas
Vegging out in front of your flat-panel TV may pose more danger than turning your brain to mush. ...
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Selling Out Grandma
In late 2007, the investment firm The Carlyle Group purchased one of the country's largest nursing home chains despite...
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Dark Side of Russias Rainbow
Despite political, legal and religious pressures, Nikolai Alexeyev has worked to combat prejudice and secure legal and political protections for Russia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
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Putting the IRS to Political Use?
A recent audit of Greenpeace at the behest of Public Interest Watch raises some eyebrows
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The Gossip
"To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart." This pearl of wisdom from Marjane Satrapi's...
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“You Know It Makes Sense”
The unstoppable Terry Jones of Monty Python fame lets Blair/Bush have it in his Gaurdian editorial today....
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Where Are the Women?
What Washington Post editor Zofia Smardz dubbed “Opiniongate” began when columnist and commentator Susan Estrich sent a letter...
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Gannongate or Nothinggate?
"Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely." --James Guckert,...
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Keeping the Faith
Even after a two-day snowstorm pummeled Chicago in late January, the parking lot of the Trinity United Church...
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Three Strikes…
In a Salon exclusive Eric Boehlert reports that a THIRD columnist is confirmed to have been paid to...
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U.S. Military Drops the “Gay Bomb”
In a hilarious BBC news report, it is revealed that the U.S. military considered developing a "'gay...
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So Wrong, for So Long
Once again, folks, repeat: No WMDs in Iraq. The Boston Globe reports that the search for chemical and...
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Recapturing Kansas
How did conservatives win the heart of America? That is the question Tom Frank explores in his bestselling...
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Social Injustice
In Tom Frank's funny and chilling analysis of backlash in the heartland, What's the Matter with Kansas? How...
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What Would Jesus Broadcast?
I noticed this item first on www.dailykos.com.... The progressive United Church of Christ is beginning a...
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Vidal Responds
After I interviewed Gore Vidal for In These Times and Fire on the Prairie, I asked him if...
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Imperial Amnesia
Gore Vidal on America’s current imbroglio
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Healthcare Crisis, Compounded with Interest….
Never mind V.P. Cheney for just a minute.... another Dick in office (Republican Rep. Dick Armey), along...
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Fox Takes on Young Voters
Speaking of keeping people from the polls (see "Pulling out the Stops" below).... Democracy Now!, broadcasting live from...
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Get Off the Peace Plane
The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens was deported from the United States after his flight on Tuesday...
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