U.S. Lags Behind World in Temp Worker Protections

Staff / Truthdig Feb 24, 2014 ‘Permatemping’ cases highlight lack of U.S. protections for temp workers. Other countries limit the length of temp jobs, guarantee equal pay and restrict dangerous work. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

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Black Friday Protests Against Wal-Mart Begin

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 30, 2013 Thousands of Wal-Mart workers and their union supporters are staging protests across the United States against the company's practice of keeping its employees poor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Kshama Sawant

BLANK Nov 24, 2013 By winning a seat on Seattle's City Council this month, the socialist has given her fellow citizens one of the best opportunities in living memory to determine their individual and collective futures. Will city residents make good on it?By winning a seat on Seattle's City Council, the socialist has given her fellow citizens one of the best opportunities in living memory to determine their individual and collective futures. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Working Conditions

Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain Nov 15, 2013 Dig deeper

Top U.S. Tech Firms Fund ‘Extreme’ Right-Wing Causes

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 15, 2013 The link between tech and the right wing was confirmed in a report by a lobbying watchdog that shows some of America's largest technology and telecom companies "are backing a network of self-styled 'free-market thinktanks' promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation," The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Striking California Wal-Mart Workers Aim to Embarrass Company

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2013 After 50-odd years without coordinated strikes in U.S. Wal-Marts, the chain has seen a series of employee protests organized by the nonunion workers’ group OUR Wal-Mart. Wednesday the wave of demonstrations reached Southern California in a surprise strike riding on the coattails of a successful walk-off in Hialeah, Fla. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Real Right-Wing Revolution Is Happening at the State Level

BLANK Nov 4, 2013 A new report from the Economic Policy Institute finds broad collusion among business groups and state-level Republican Party officials to shrink private-sector labor costs -- and undercut working America. The issues include finagling laws to give high schoolers more work hours and lower wages and radically expanding the Tennessee labor bureaucracy tightening access to unemployment payments. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Qatar an ‘Open Jail’ for Nepalese Laborers Working in Slave-Like Conditions

BLANK Sep 26, 2013 The Gulf state of Qatar is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants working in appalling conditions. Dozens died this summer alone, many of them young men felled by heart failure.The Gulf state is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Goodwill Ain’t So Great

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2013 The nonprofit agency takes advantage of workers with disabilities thanks to an antiquated act; people who stay up late show a higher incidence of the "Dark Triad" of personality traits -- Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism; meanwhile, the Egyptian military's civilian death count is proof the Arab Spring has been halted. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Factory Collapse Kills Two Workers in Cambodia

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 17, 2013 Two people are dead after part of the concrete roof of a factory that manufactures Asics shoes in Cambodia collapsed on workers, officials say. Police report at least six people were injured. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )