AltWeeklies Wire
Employers Skim $26.2 Million Per Week from Lower-Income Workers Paychecksnew
Ruth Milkman should have moved this statistic from the 53rd page of her study to the front, where it might have been read by local media: Every week, employers in Los Angeles County pilfer $26.2 million from the paychecks of the poorest 17 percent of workers.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
02-19-2010 |
Business & Labor
Enslaved in Suburbia: Two Women, Two Fractured American Dreamsnew
Inside the world of trafficked indentured servants and the visa violators who care for our old.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
02-20-2009 |
Business & Labor
Donald T. Sterling's Skid Row Miragenew
The billionaire Clippers owner claims he's creating a major homeless center. He's not, but image is what counts.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
03-21-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
A Heavy Load for Truckersnew
The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks -- but do they have a plan for the truckers?
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
07-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Powered by Paymentsnew
ACORN bills itself as grassroots, but it's on the mayor's payroll in L.A.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
02-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Flat Line, Bottom Linenew
Is a hospital chain cutting corners for profit?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
08-17-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Critical Conditionnew
Will the NLRB deny nurses union cards?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
07-20-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Heidi Chroniclesnew
Heidi Fleiss is fighting roadside breakdowns, barren deserts, abandoned towns, a brothel war, and an assortment of cowboys, pimps and angry locals on the road to opening America's first stud farm.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Kotler |
07-06-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tank Goodnessnew
A shipping giant volunteers to slash emissions at the port -- but why?
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
06-08-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Off-Road Rebellionnew
Who got port drivers out of their trucks on May 1?
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
05-04-2006 |
Business & Labor
Revved Up for Clean Airnew
As the California Air Resources Board presents a clean-air plan for the ports that some say isn't agressive enough, truckers get in gear to protest low wages.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
04-27-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Eternal Dustbowlnew
Paying for the sins of L.A.'s water barons has created a half-billion-dollar boondoggle.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeffrey Anderson |
03-23-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Dreaming of Picket Fencesnew
UNITE HERE's Hotel Workers Rising campaign seeks to lift working and living standards in one of the few American industries whose work force cannot be offshored.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
02-23-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
L.A. Stocks Up Food for Hotel Workers' Labor Actionnew
Nineteen Los Angeles elected officials, including Mayor Jim Hahn, are girding for a strike or lockout of hotel workers by gathering food to tide over employees during what could turn out to be a long period without pay.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Greene |
09-29-2004 |
Business & Labor
