No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama should get a third opportunity to vote on unionizing, a federal labor judge has ruled.
Producer Brian Reed says he's working with AppleTV+ on a TV adaptation of 2017 podcast phenomenon S-Town
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Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s
Baseball legend Reggie Jackson tells the Fox Sports audience the truth about playing baseball in the 1960s in the South. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.” He then spoke for several minutes about being treated like something less than human.
Mercedes put on an “A-level boss fight.” Which was only to be expected. So how can the union win next time?
Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it happen.
Three labor disputes along the same highway in Alabama demonstrate the challenges and hopes facing unions in the Deep South.
The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers.
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