Новости за 22.09.2016

In 2012, seven migrant farmworkers sued the agricultural giant Monsanto, charging that the $4-per-acre piece rate they were paid for corn detasseling in Indiana was substantially less than the federal minimum wage.

What if I told you about 110 million Americans, the majority of them eligible voters, facing one of the country’s greatest challenges, who have never been formally organized on a mass scale? What if I told you that, if molded into a political force, they could swing elections, change state and local laws, and force action to resolve a crisis?

Bakken crude oil was largely unknown to the general public when a 2013 railroad explosion and fire killed 47 residents of the tiny Canadian border town of Lac-Mégantic. Bakken wasn’t often mentioned on the streets of Westport in South Baltimore, where crime, poverty and deteriorated housing seemed more urgent. But Westport is a throughway for the dangerously flammable oil shipments, and a coalition of climate-change campaigners, social justice activists and rail safety reformers have been trying to make Bakken a household word. Читать дальше...

At a Senate Banking Committee hearing this week, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf argued that the company’s troubles didn’t reflect a culture of corruption but were caused by some 5,000 rogue “team members.” Stumpf was trying to explain why his company’s employees had created more than 2 million fake accounts for customers. He told a mostly unsympathetic audience, which included Sen. Elizabeth Warren, that “wrongful sales practice behavior goes entirely against our values, ethics and culture.” Warren... Читать дальше...