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‘Egregious’: DOL Finds US Meatpacking Plants Illegally Employed 100+ Children

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/18/egregious-dol-finds-us-meatpacking-plants-ill…
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Sat, 18/02/2023 - 22:01

The federal probe revealed that Packers Sanitation Services had children as young as 13 "working with hazardous chemicals and cleaning meat processing equipment including back saws, brisket saws, and head splitters."

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To Change the World, Our Unions Must Change

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/12/to-change-the-world-our-unions-must-change/?u…
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Sun, 12/02/2023 - 22:00

By David Story / Labor Notes Unionism has seen a resurgence in popularity the past few years. The problem is, it’s very difficult to get our members organizing in their communities when they hate the way our leadership (I use that word loosely) is operating. Our unions shouldn’t be, and I’d argue weren’t meant to […]

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How to Rescue Our Democratic Society: Constitutionally Render Corporations Unequal to Humans

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/11/how-to-rescue-our-democratic-society-constitu…
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Sat, 11/02/2023 - 22:00

By Ralph Nader / RalphNader.org No other institutions consistently Rule over as Much in the World as the Giant Global Corporations – not governments, not armies, not religions and certainly not trade unions. These fictional corporate entities have largely achieved transcendent imperial status, as they amass coordinated control over capital, labor, technology and governments because […]

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