Is Cruelty to Workers Behind Workplace Shootings?

Another workplace shooting took place in Fresno on November 5th at a chicken processing plant. Three workers were killed and two were injured by a fellow employee with a handgun. According to filmmaker Emil Chiaberi, this pattern of workplace violence has roots in the way employees are treated in this country. Chiaberi’s 2010 film, “Murder by Proxy: How America went Postal,” sheds both light and heat on the phenomena of [...]

 

 
 
 

Save the People's Post Office (listen to the cop's hilarious accusations)

Right now, postal workers in Washington D.C. are having a hunger strike. Why? Because corporations are bribing politicians to shut down the post office and privatize the system, destroying the second largest employer in the United States. Occupy joined with unions, ANSWER Coalition, the Gray Panthers and many others to march to a local post office in a poor part of town, take it over and hold a rally inside. [...]