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Domestic Workers: Vulnerable, Underpaid, and Abusednew

Groundbreaking national survey finds domestic workers are often overworked, underpaid, abused, and excluded from protections that regulate other professions.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 12-07-2012 | Business & Labor

Hershey's and West African Child Labornew

Valentine's Day is the chocolate industry's holiday season. With an eye toward this February's annual love-fest, the International Labor Rights Forum purchased an advertising slot on a jumbotron outside the Super Bowl's Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on which to broadcast a video called Hershey's Chocolate, Kissed by Child Labor.

San Antonio Current | Ari LeVaux | 02-09-2012 | Business & Labor

Tags: hersheys child labor

Hyatt Protests Escalate in San Antonionew

When I first started here, it was better,” says Elvia Claudio, reflecting on her three years cleaning rooms at downtown’s stately Grand Hyatt hotel.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 07-28-2011 | Business & Labor

San Antionio Airport Police Whistleblower Gets Fired and Takes His Case to the Citynew

The decision by Chief Ron Bruner to terminate Corporal Russell Martin exposed some emotional wounds that have been mounting within San Antonio’s Airport Police Department.

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 03-04-2009 | Business & Labor

Tags: Orlando Battles, Russell Martin, San Antonio Airport Police

Inside San Antonio's Growing Surveillance Economynew

The NSA's new Texas Cryptology Center, a data-mining center, is one component of a growing local surveillance industry

San Antonio Current | Greg M. Schwartz | 12-03-2008 | Business & Labor

Tags: surveillance, NSA, San Antonio, business & labor, data mining, Texas Cryptology Center

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility Takes on Everything from GMOs to Greenhouse Gasesnew

The group was born out of Apartheid South Africa and a group of Protestant shareholders who asked General Motors to reconsider its extensive investment in the country. Executive director Laura Berry talks to us about the ensuing 37 years, and how they group uses shareholder power to influence a host of issues.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 04-16-2008 | Business & Labor

Tags: activism, corporate responsibility, corporations, divestment, interfaith groups, Laura Berry, social responsibility, South Africa, The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, business & labor

Exploitation Should Kills Bush's 'Free Trade' Dealsnew

As business interests press their case for expanding NAFTA-like agreements to Colombia, Peru, and Panama, a growing collection of Americans are coming to question the human-rights implications of so-called Free Trade.

San Antonio Current | Greg Harman | 09-20-2007 | Business & Labor

Tags: NAFTA, Central America, free trade, business & labor