AltWeeklies Wire
The Unkindest Cutnew
A Nashville company fires a recently paralyzed teenage employee, cutting off her medical coverage — and raising doubts about health care reform.
Nashville Scene |
Jonathan Meador |
09-06-2011 |
Business & Labor
Marcus Books Is Making a Comebacknew
After being a victim of a Ponzi scheme, the nation's oldest African-American bookstore is recovering from its financial woes. But can it cope with black flight from Oakland?
East Bay Express |
Holly McDede |
09-01-2011 |
Business & Labor
Cheat Local!new
Portland helped make Groupon a giant. Here's how local businesses get crushed.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
08-17-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Groupon, daily deals
Mind the Gapnew
The gender-income gap in Canada continues to exist. Despite advances by women in higher education attainment, greater participation in the workforce and decades of anti-discrimination legislation, Canada cannot shake a persistent wage gap—women are earning, on average, 70 percent of what men do.
VUE Weekly |
Samantha Power |
08-12-2011 |
Business & Labor
Organized-Labor Pains: MilkBoy's Union Saga, Continuednew
MilkBoy Coffee owners Tommy Joyner and Jamie Lokoff are mild-mannered artists-turned-entrepreneurs building a new concert venue in Philadelphia. The landlord didn't hire all-union labor, and they found themselves caught in the middle of a public debate about the role of unions in the U.S. "Honestly, we feel like we’re being picked on by a large, highly funded, highly organized organization, not to be redundant," says Joyner. There’s just no way to get back at them because you think you’re getting somewhere, and [then] your place gets lit on fire.”
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
08-04-2011 |
Business & 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
Charleston Startup Competes With Craigslistnew
QuickFoxes.com, the brainchild of a recent College of Charleston graduate, lets you hire people to do Foxruns — tasks like walking your dog, adding calligraphy to your wedding invitations, teaching your kid how to swim, or organizing your office — on an hourly or room-by-room basis.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
07-15-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Craigslist, QuickFoxes.com
From Homes to Oil?new
Banning Lewis Ranch could be the next playground for oil and gas drillers, depending on rezoning.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
07-14-2011 |
Business & Labor
Deals Du Journew
Groupon, Living Social and the other daily-deal sites: Good or bad for business?
Gambit |
Lauren LaBorde |
06-28-2011 |
Business & Labor
AFL-CIO, Local Labor Leader Blast Boeing Hearingnew
Inside those chambers, Congressional Democrats and Republicans delivered a series of dramatic, Royal Shakespeare Company-caliber soliloquies. Some protested the NLRB suit against Boeing while others sneered at the jet manufacturer's decision to open its new 787 Dreamliner plant in anti-union South Carolina instead of pro-union Washington state.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
Boeing Hearing Amounts to Little More Than Political Theaternew
On June 17, Lafe Solomon, chief acting legal counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, was summoned to North Charleston under the threat of a subpoena. The reason: To sit before a U.S. House panel and be attacked by mob of angry Republicans, including three Congressmen from South Carolina and the state's high-profile governor and possible 2012 GOP VP candidate, Nikki Haley.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
Boeing's Decision to Move Has Turned Into a Legal Nightmarenew
Last week, South Carolina's top politicians gathered together to celebrate the official opening of Boeing's Dreamliner plant in North Charleston. But this week, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will conduct hearings in the city on a lawsuit filed by the National Labor Relations Board against the airline manufacturer. At issue is whether Boeing illegally retaliated against its unionized workforce in Washington state by building a second Dreamliner plant in North Charleston, a move that will create an estimated 3,800 new jobs in South Carolina.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-17-2011 |
Business & Labor
Likes and Dislikesnew
Eateries sound off on their forays into collective buying.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
Bare Minimumnew
Do sheltered workshops teach the disabled skills for the workplace or exploit them for cheap labor?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Gore |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
Deal-a-Mealnew
Groupon and LivingSocial work for consumers, but local restaurants offer mixed reviews.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
