Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice

07/11/2014

07/07/2014

Truck drivers who haul cargo for major retailers like Wal-Mart and Target walked off the job in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. on Monday.

07/07/2014

Rhode Island Democrats take a page from the GOP in moving to quash a city's bid to hike hotel worker pay

06/17/2014

America is treating its low-wage workers so badly that it's starting to get shamed by the rest of the world. The International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth this year, warned of sluggish growth for years to come...

06/13/2014

These union fourth-tier auto workers who make dashboards for Ford at cut-rate wages are lucky compared to the fifth-tier workers who work for fly-by-night companies and have no job security. Photo: Jim West/jimwestphoto.com.

06/08/2014

Six years after Great Recession, majority of Americans stagnating

05/28/2014

Ms. Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday.

05/25/2014

Today in labor history, May 25, 1805: In Philadelphia, leaders of a shoemakers’ union are arrested for organizing one of the country’s first strikes. They were brought to trial on criminal conspiracy charges of trying to raise their wages and convicted. In 1842, another case – also involving a strike by shoemakers – overturned the precedent set by Commonwealth v. Pullis.

05/25/2014

Begging the government to subsidize corporations to create "green jobs" is no answer.

A number of companies have begun experimenting with new technology that could significantly reduce restaurant labor forces in the years to come.