This praise comes before the F.L.A. has even done a report, making the claims somewhat suspect. "Generally, in a labor rights investigation, the findings come after the evidence is gathered, not the other way around," Scott Nova executive director of...

According to reports by several news organizations, Auret van Heerden, president of the group, called Foxconn’s facilities “first-class” and said “Foxconn is really not a sweatshop.” Mr. van Heerden’s apparent praise of conditions at Foxconn came...

But, to some, it looks like more of a PR play than action. "The Fair Labor Association is largely a fig leaf," Jeff Ballinger, director of Press for Change, a labor rights group told The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse. And Stinebrickner-Kauffman of...

By DAVID CARR Anyone who has ever set foot in one of the towering churches of Manhattan publishing will tell you that most of them run on intern enterprise. Not just the coffee-fetching kind, but real, actual work. Xuedan Wang, who interned at Harper’s...

By DAVID CARR Anyone who has ever set foot in one of the towering churches of Manhattan publishing will tell you that most of them run on intern enterprise. Not just the coffee-fetching kind, but real, actual work. Xuedan Wang, who interned at Harper’s...

One thing that surprised me in the report was that the number of public sector workers in unions dropped only 61,000 from 2010 to 2011, to 7.56 million. With so many states and municipalities shedding workers over the last year, I would have guessed...