Investigative
Workday Exclusive: Major Shifts in Minnesota Prison Industries Lead to Layoffs
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Based on a tip about prison industry layoffs, Workday is revisiting central themes in our prior reporting on the Minnesota Prison Industry.
Amazon
Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network
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Amazon ignored or dismissed safety concerns about its delivery network to prioritize speed and explosive growth, according to new documents and interviews with insiders
Investigative
Farm immigration reform aims to aid struggling Midwest dairies
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New legislation could make it easier for farmers to hire immigrant labor – a growing need for the dairy and poultry industries as well as other agriculture sectors.
Investigative
The Physical Dangers of Working for Amazon
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These logs from more than 20 Amazon facilities across the country show that the rates of serious injury at 23 fulfillment centers from which data could be obtained were more than double the industry average in 2018.
Investigative
Popular E-Scooters on U of M Campus Causing injuries, yet Boynton not Fully Tracking Impacts
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The University of Minnesota is seeing an increase in student injuries from the use of rental scooters. This semester alone, as of Sep. 2 up until Nov. 14, there have been 51 of these injuries in urgent care at the university’s Boynton healthcare center.
Investigative
Arkansas Teachers Went On Strike. Here Are the Corporate School Privatizers They’re Up Against.
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Teachers of Little Rock, Arkansas are on strike Thursday over the state’s decision to strip their collective bargaining rights and curtail local control of the school district. It is the teachers’ first strike since 1987, and only their second strike ever.
Investigative
Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo
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In late May 2018, nine women sued Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the world. Several of the lawsuits charged that plant supervisors had engaged in “the most extreme acts of sexual harassment.”
Government
Trump’s NLRB, Trying to Cut Protections for Millions of Temps and Fast-Food Workers, Trips Up Again
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The labor-relations board’s attempt to kill an Obama rule protecting third-party employees fizzled once because of a conflict of interest. Now, two representatives charge, there’s a new conflict and it involves the agency’s own use of temps.
Immigration
Missouri’s housing inspections for H-2A workers missed deficiencies for years
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The lax inspection process led to an incident in summer 2018 where workers lived in a former jail, a motel with bed bugs and a house with a leaking toilet.
Investigative
These Farmworkers Were Forced to Labor on Empty Stomachs
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During an incident in Kennett, Missouri, in summer 2018, H-2A workers labored through high temperatures while denied breakfast and with little access to water. Their legal status was supposed to protect them.