June 8, 2006

… is a contract?

Angela’s got a post that raises some interesting question about contracts, and ties those issues to ones about contracts of all sorts - social, wage, others. This resonates with something else I’ve been reading lately - Staughton Lynd’s book Solidarity Unionism, which some folk from my IWW branch are going to discuss soon in part because Lynd’s the main speaker at Midwest Wobfest which our branch is hosting. (more…)

February 26, 2006

… is a wage and hour violation?

Filed under: organizing, labor law

Here’s what I thought it was: when you work at your job and management makes you do work off the clock, uncompensated. (more…)