‘Gen U’ See Corporations Running Lives and Ruining the Planet; Seek Reform of Labor Law
Author: Joe Maniscalco
Joe Maniscalco
Joe Maniscalco is a journalist and freelance writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in a variety of news outlets ranging from the NewYorkPost.com to Alternet.org. He's spent the last decade covering workplace justice issues, the American Labor Movement and steadfastly avoiding well-paid corporate media gigs.
But Labor Board Sides with the Company over Controversial Mailbox for Union Ballots
Starbucks Patrons Lead the Way, but Other Companies See Customers Support Employees Organizing
Stalled in the Senate, the Bill Would Ease Union Organizing Efforts Working men and women are rising up, risking all and taking collective action against unchecked exploitation in the era of covid-19 — and Senate Democrats had better catch up. That’s the message frustrated organizers wrapping up a fruitless 14-day, 3,126 journey across the country advocating for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) delivered to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York City doorstep earlier this month. “Workers are leading the way right now, but we need more,” Our Revolution National Field Organizer Mike Oles told supporters…
Second Effort Seeks to Get Around Company’s High Turnover of Employees New York City Amazon workers attempting to organize the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island are calling on labor regulators to find new remedies to existing rules that make unionizing inside the company’s massive warehouses next to impossible. The Amazon Labor Union re-filed for a union election on Wednesday with nearly 3,000 union cards signed. The National Labor Relations Board decided last fall that the union had to withdraw an earlier petition because it failed to reach the 30% threshold needed to trigger an election. “The NLRB decided that…
Labor Calls It the ‘Most Significant’ Worker Legislation Since the Great Depression,’ but It’s Frozen in the Senate
And They Get Neither from an Economy that Exploits Labor and Rewards the Already Wealthy
With Three New Appointees on the Postal Service Board, Louis DeJoy’s Days of Dismantling the Post Office Appear Numbered
State Senate Has Passed the ’21st Century Antitrust Act’ Targeting Amazon, Apple and Others
As Alabama Miners Continue a Months-Long Walkout, Union Members Target the Wall Street Money Managers Who Own the Mines