● Companies are disclosing how much less they pay workers than executives. Thanks to the Dodd-Frank law Republicans are so intent on repealing.
● The factory in the family:
Domestic-worker organizer Ai-jen Poo has noted that the challenges workers face in the 21st century are increasingly those that paid domestic workers faced all along: isolation, irregular hours, exclusion from labor laws. One might add that they are also the challenges that women have faced all along. As Federici and Nicole Cox, another Wages for Housework activist, pointed out in 1975, the “self-management” and “workers’ control” touted by managers attempting to soothe restive workers and cut workspace costs had “always existed in the home.” Even if work was privatized, individualized, and personalized, that didn’t make it less work; it just meant “a bit more of the factory in the family (higher efficiency and productivity of housework) and a bit more of the family in the factory (more individual concern, responsibility, identification with work).”
● An Oakland coal terminal is officially stalled, thanks to a labor-environmental alliance.
● How trade deals and immigration laws hurt workers—Mexican workers.