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Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths

A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to …

Picked by slaves: coffee crisis brews in Brazil

As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern Brazil, labor inspectors raced to two sprawling plantations with one goal – to rescue workers from …

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McDonald’s USA, LLC, a joint employer, et al.

The NLRB on instructed an administrative law judge to approve a $172,000 settlement with McDonald’s that relieves it of liability as a “joint employer”. The dissenting member expressed that “This …

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McDonald’s Wins Backing of Labor Board

The National Labor Relations Board instructed a federal judge to approve a settlement in a case pertaining to McDonald’s Corp. status as a joint employer, helping shield the company from liability from …

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When Anti-Immigrant Mania Endangers Public Safety

What happens when loathing for immigrants reflexively trumps all other concerns? We learned one answer to this question late last month, when a crucial witness to the Hard Rock Hotel …

Major global hotel brands accused of profiting from sex trafficking

Hotel brands owned by Hilton, Intercontinental and Best Western are among a number of leading global chains accused of profiting from sex trafficking. In a landmark case that lawyers claim …

She was Instacart’s biggest cheerleader. Now she’s leading a worker revolt.

When Vanessa Bain quit her job working with special needs students at a public high school in Silicon Valley to become a shopper for online grocery delivery company Instacart, she …

UBER’S DANGEROUS EXPANSION INTO TEMPORARY LABOR

Uber is at it again. The company is expanding its “on demand” model of precarious work to the temporary staffing business—an industry already notorious for exploitative labor practices. Through its …

Injured Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Protesting Dangerous Work Speed

Injured former Amazon warehouse workers and labor organizers in Chicago are protesting dangerous work speed and high injury rates today outside one of the company’s brick-and-mortar stores in downtown Chicago. …

Top hotels sued for ‘industry-wide failures’ to prevent U.S. sex trafficking

Landmark U.S. legal action was filed on Monday accusing several major hotel groups of profiting from sex trafficking on behalf of 13 women who claimed they were sold for sex …

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