With the press all focused on Foxconn's unfortunate labor conditions, the despotic electronics maker has taken this moment to prove its factories aren't all that bad. And with the Fair Labor Association making its way through the iPad maker's facilities

The president of a nonprofit group hired by Apple to inspect its suppliers’ factories began praising the Chinese plants of Foxconn, Apple’s largest supplier, just days after his group, the Fair Labor Association, began inspections there, reports Steven G

Even with a formal statement from CEO Tim Cook, its own internal inspections and now an independent audit by the Fair Labor Association, Apple can't appease critics of the working conditions at Foxconn where it manufactures its iProducts. Apple's latest

February 1, 2012, 3:07 pm 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,

February 1, 2012, 3:07 pm 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,

As my colleague Steven Greenhouse wrote in Saturday’s paper, the share of workers who are unionized fell again last year, to 11.8 percent. One thing that surprised me in the report was that the number of public sector workers in unions dropped only 61,00

Robert Kagan is a prominent neoconservative who advised John McCain in the 2008 race and is advising Mitt Romney in 2012. But after publishing a cover story in the New Republic arguing against "the myth of American decline," he has found himself a new fa

The most significant number in the recent Bureau of Labor Statistics release on unionization is probably this: Only 6.9 percent of private sector workers are in unions. That’s the same percent as last year. In the middle of the 20th century, it was 35%.

More Lockouts As Companies Battle Unions is an interesting New York Times article by Steven Greenhouse. It is about increased use of offensive lockouts by employers who then turn around and hire temporary replacement workers. As the article states: The n

In the heat of the NBA lockout, I was pursuing a story about the role of race in the talks. Fascinating stuff that almost nobody will discuss on the record! On one side of the bargaining table almost everyone is white, and on the other side of the table

Open your pay stub, take a look at your hourly rate and then put yourself in some perspective: do you earn more than $9.50 an hour? If so, then you do better than the average retail worker in NYC, according to a new study reported in the New York Times t

When you picture a home health aide, what do you see? Do you see someone sitting in a comfortable chair, chatting with a perfectly healthy companion while they both chortle at Dancing with the Stars? Or do you see a trained professional working with a pa

Before turning to Eleanor and unions, one quick thing: Time magazine has released its “Top 10 U.S.-News Stories,” and with no surprise at all, “Occupy Wall Street Protests” is number one on the list. You can see the accompanying spread here. In 1962, she

WW interview with longshore workers on As pressure builds for the Dec. 12 West Coast port shutdown, the capitalist owners and their media began a battle of ideas to blunt this powerful threat to their profits and control — ev