Marklar's Blog Posts Tagged 'labor' (12)

Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters

2013 10 25

By Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito | Reuters

Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst…

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Added by Marklar on October 27, 2013 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Apple's Foreign Suppliers Demonstrate Widespread Scamming and Horrific Abuse of Employees

Apple's bombshell report on its suppliers shows anti-employee practices as common as iPods. White collar criminologist William K. Black investigates.

January 20, 2012 |…

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Added by Marklar on January 23, 2012 at 1:19am — No Comments

Wal-Mart Fires Associate Of Year, Cancer Patient, For Medical Marijuana Use

March 13, 2010

Smiley Says No Pot

Steve Elliott writes

on Toke

of the Town:

Despite medical marijuana being legal in Michigan, WalMart has fired a cancer patient and former employee of the year who

tested positive for the drug, which was recommended by his doctor.

“I was terminated because I failed a drug…

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Added by Marklar on March 13, 2010 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

The dark side of Dubai

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

The Independent

By Johann Hari

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari… Continue

Added by Marklar on December 11, 2009 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

Forced Labour and Rape, the New Face of Slavery in America

In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.

By Paul Harris in Dayton, Ohio

November 22, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some campaigners to dub it a modern form of… Continue

Added by Marklar on November 22, 2009 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Could We Have More Jobs Than We Ever Hoped For?

The Jobs Summit

The Progress Report

by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor, 16 November 2009

President Barack Obama will be hosting a White House forum on jobs in December 2009. Unemployment continued to rise during 2009, and the president seeks to stoke the economy to create more jobs, jobs, jobs.

The summit will gather together… Continue

Added by Marklar on November 18, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Republicans Are Shocked The Public Is Mad At Them For Voting Against Franken’s Anti-Rape Amendment

Think Progress

Nov 13th, 2009

Last month, 30 Republican senators voted against Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment that would punish defense contractors “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” His amendment was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by… Continue

Added by Marklar on November 16, 2009 at 5:38pm — No Comments

A Brief History of Corporate Whining

Added by Marklar on September 10, 2009 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Contracts Can’t Be Broken—Unless They Involve Union Workers

AFL-CIO Blog

by Tula Connell, Mar 18, 2009

Contracts can’t be broken. We learned that lesson well over the past few days when AIG honchos swore that despite being bailed out by $173 billion in taxpayer funds, they couldn’t break the sacrosanct contractual bond that guaranteed billions in bonuses to the same top executives who… Continue

Added by Marklar on March 18, 2009 at 9:27pm — No Comments

Violent unrest rocks China as crisis hits

The collapse of the export trade has left millions without work and set off a wave of social instability.

China's new year of the ox portends calm but there is little sign of it as workers in Shezhen protest over unpaid wages as factories shut

China's new year of the ox portends calm but there is little sign of it as workers in Shezhen protest over unpaid wages as factories shut

Michael Sheridan in Hong… Continue

Added by Marklar on February 3, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Financial Theorem

Engineers, Teachers, Programmers and Scientists can never earn as much salary as business executives and sales people.

This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following three postulates:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power (Knowledge=Power)

Postulate 2: Time is Money (Time=Money)

Postulate 3 (as every Physics student knows):

Power =… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 2, 2009 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments