Liana Foxvog, National Organizer, SweatFree Communities As the financial and employment crisis deepens, it is crucial that we respond by addressing the causal roots of the mess. Multinational corporations have undermined local economies with the help of lax government regulations and trade agreement...

McDonald's, which must have laid off its entire PR department to screw up this badly, has denied a Worker's Comp claim stemming from an employee who took a bullet rescuing a patron who was being beaten inside the restaurant. The employee has needed several surgeries and has racked up $300,000 in med...

By Lupita Aguila, Program Coordinator, USLEAP While many Americans celebrated St. Valentine’s Day with their loved ones, flower workers who were working on average up to 12 hours a day leading up to the holiday met this past Wednesday evening at their union office in Facatativa, Colombia, a 90-min...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum We have written several blog posts here about Russell's violations of the right to union organizing in Honduras.  Because of its abuses in Honduras, Russell ended up on ILRF's list of corporations that violate freedom of association....

ZP Heller @ OpenLeft: The Senate Labor committee postponed [Hilda] Solis’ nomination yesterday because of a recent USA Today report about her husband’s outstanding California tax liens. (NOTE: it was her husband’s auto repair business, not anything to do with Solis herself.)  Thou...

By Brian Campbell, International Labor Rights Forum Atty. Remigio Saladero, chief legal counsel for the KMU in the Philippines, will be released today by  order of the Philippines Regional Trial Court in Calapan City. Atty. Saladero’s family and friends are on their way to Mindoro now to get him....

From a ImmigrationProf Blog today comes a commentary on the lack of employee convictions in the wake of the flurry of recent immigration raids. Undocumented workers continue to face horrific consequences (including the new tactic of conviction of criminal offenses), while the employers remain unscat...

Filed under: Government/Legal, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, Safety, Toyota, UAW/Unions, Celebrities, Carsumer Advocacy The top is a tough place to be. Just ask Toyota, which is now facing charges of worker right abuses, including the use of sweat shops and human trafficking. As we've reported before...

We use them all the time - our firefighters, police officers and emergency medical service personnel. Hardly a day goes by that we don't come into contact either directly or indirectly with these hard working public servants. When we have traffic accidents or emergencies at home or at work these pub...

By Beth Myers, Executive DIrector, STITCH and Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum From May 2-4, labor, community, religious and student activists converged in Providence, Rhode Island for the 2008 Jobs With Justice National Conference.  Jobs With Justice is a natio...