Chicago hotel workers have been on strike for almost a full month, but for many hotel workers, the work stoppage has already paid off. Hundreds of workers remain on strike, but more than a dozen hotels have reached deals with workers in the Unite Here Local 1 union. On Tuesday, workers from nine hotels were still […]
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Open thread for night owls. 'Prison Labor on the Kill Line’
Michelle Chen at The Nation writes—Prison Labor on the ‘Kill Line’: Frank Dwayne Ellington showed up at an Alabama chicken factory last October for his weekend shift, expecting to work off another day of his life sentence. As one of the Alabama inmates selected to work in a prison-labor program known as work-release, Ellington might […]