Ask any number of your office colleagues and the answer is bound to be the same: British workers are facing tougher, longer hours than ever before.
By Tim Lezard, from Union News GMB members vote to ballot for strike action. When organiser Carole Vallelly suggested GMB members at a local hospital sign a collective grievance against bullying at work, she was expecting a dozen or so to add their names. So when the petition was returned with 109 signatories, she was
What does democracy look like? How about this: a governor, swept into office on the GOP wave of 2010 with a financial assist from the billionaire Koch brothers, pivots immediately from moderate talk about job creation to radical austerity that divides his state more than any in the Union. He attacks the collective bargaining rights of public workers and teachers. When hundreds of thousands of citi...
Like many people, myself included, playwright and monologue artist Mike Daisey was once a great fan of Apple products, until that is due to his own curiosity he decided to visit the Foxconn factory in China, which employs approximately 450,000 workers and manufactures most of Apple's products. Why does Apple choose to outsource product manufacturing to a Stalinist State, which...
