LaborPress

Category: National

First Patagonia Workers Unionize

Like another outdoor gear supplier, REI, Patagonia’s progressive image pitched at customers has not extended to their workers’ rights. REI employees in several states, including in their flagship store in

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Slave Labor Still Exists

Prison labor is a form of slavery. On prison farms, inmates, mostly in the South, still harvest crops, some by hand, on a number of former slave plantations. Arkansas, Texas,

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REI union unveils list of demands

Four months after REI workers filed a nationwide complaint that the outdoors retailer had refused to bargain in good faith at its nine unionized stores, the REI union publicly outlined

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AFM and AMPTP Reach Tentative Deal

A tentative deal between the American Federation of Musicians and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will bring unprecedented changes to the working lives of musicians. It addresses

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