The fast-fashion industry has long been known for exploitative practices, which have continued during the pandemic, despite the health risk to garment workers. “Fashion masks,” substitute actual protection for mere simulation.
The memo discovery comes just a month after a report drew attention to two Amazon job listings posted in August seeking “intelligence analysts” to research “labor organizing threats against the company.”
A deepening COVID-19 crisis–now surging in most California agricultural counties–puts farmworkers in the pandemic’s crosshairs.
If the work of abolition is not only about stopping prisons, but also about imagining a future in which we win, then people cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry factory.
Dozens of workers in Byhalia, Mississippi who work for one of the country's leading producers of cereal and baked goods voted Wednesday in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, known as UFCW.
The Culinary Union and its parent organization UNITE HERE want every one of the 60,000 workers in Nevada tested for coronavirus before going back to work.
Workers at companies that offer poor pay and unsafe working conditions now know they are essential. And many expect to be treated that way.
While fashion designers and brands continue to grab headlines and praise for their “heroism,” garment workers are fundraising for basic needs.
By deporting the whistleblower and witness to the New Orleans hotel collapse, the Trump administration runs roughshod over common sense.
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