New Feature: Labor Blogging

Henry at Crooked Timber comments on the absence of blogging on labor issues, and then draws our attention to a recent Human Rights Watch report on union busting in the meat-packing industry:

The report also concluded that packing companies violated human and labor rights by suppressing their employees’ efforts to organize by, for example, often firing employees who support a union. The report asserted that slaughterhouse and packing plants also flouted international rules by taking advantage of workers’ immigration status - in some plants two-thirds of the workers are illegal immigrants - to subject them to inferior treatment.

In light of this, I'm inaugurating another new feature here at Scott Paeth's Daily Blog, vis: Labor Blogging. Whenever I come across an interesting news item regarding labor unions and the fight to organize, I'll post it here. Solidarity forever!