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Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2025

Kuwait ponders a future after fossil fuels

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Kuwait City skyline Kuwait is an oil country, and Kuwait City glows with prosperity. Kuwaitis know, though, that they can't ride the oil...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

1901: Disgruntled laborer shoots, kills President

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Assassination of President McKinley by T. Dart Walker, c. 1905 Library of Congress In Buffalo , New York, this week, I felt obliged by recen...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Women 'knew their place' turns out to be losing union argument to justify discrimination in port jobs

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Herman Melville boarded the Acushnet at New Bedford Harbor in 1841. RJ Peltz-Steele, 2022, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 From the Massachusetts Appeals C...
Saturday, September 2, 2023

Alumnus advises 1Ls

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From a valued alumnus who's out there working to make the world a better place ... Me thinking of @RJPeltzSteele during Torts on the ...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Students join labor demands for living wage at RISD

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(UPDATE, April 18: Labor and RISD reached a tentative agreement, Wazlavek tweeted last night.) The Rhode Island School of Design —famous al...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Lawyers be a-ballin'?

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Canadian lawyers protest legal aid de-funding in 2014 ( Sally T. Buck via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ). My wife was a legal services attorney ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

'Behind Bars': Petroff article explains how secrecy shields private prison labor from public scrutiny

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Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Governor's proposed pay hikes evince typical bureaucratic ignorance of how working people earn

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Governor Dan McKee (Kenneth C. Zirkel CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia ) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee's proposal for huge increases to sta...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Shoe on other foot as US claims sovereign immunity in foreign court for firing Malaysian embassy worker

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The U.S. Embassy in KL commemorates flight MH17 in 2014. (Embassy photo, public domain, via Flickr ) Malaysian courts have been wrestling w...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

As America, France share Enlightenment roots, why have worker rights so diverged? Or have they?

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Thomas D. Aaron Wazlavek, Esq. has published an article in comparative labor law: The Pond Separates Cultures but Not Values: A Comparativ...