Not My Job: Police Assert Workers’ Rights to not Wear Body-Cams

With the movement to outfit police officers with body-cams advancing, many departments have encountered pushback from their members. On some forces, resistance has centered on the issue of workers’ rights and a demand that body-cams be collectively bargained as a term of employment.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
A Philadelphia police officer demonstrates a body-worn camera used as part of a pilot project in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

CHICAGO – As of this week, more than 7,000 of Chicago’s police officers are wearing body cameras while on patrol. According to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago has the largest number of officers outfitted with the cameras and the department accomplished the task one year ahead of its projected schedule. That could be good news for a city wracked

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Photo Essay: May Day Rallies Fill Streets Around The World

Workers around the world marked May Day with protests and demonstrations for better pay and working conditions.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A protesters chant slogans during a May day protest in Ankara, Turkey , Monday, May 1, 2017. Workers and activists marked May Day with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions Monday.

Workers and activists marked May Day around the world Monday with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions. Police detained 70 people in Istanbul as they tried to march, garment workers in Cambodia defied a government ban to demand higher wages, and workers in Spain deplored the country's 19 percent jobless

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Labor Secretary: New Overtime Rules Coming Soon

The new rule could result in larger paychecks for millions of workers.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

President Barack Obama arrives for a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2014, to sign a Presidential Memorandum directing Labor Secretary Tom Perez to modernize overtime protections. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Tom Perez told Congress on Wednesday that his agency is

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Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Top 10 Dangerous Jobs Report: Police Officer Not On It

Do police claims of mass danger and death hold water? Is it really necessary to smash an elderly woman’s face into the ground, so you can “make it home to your wife and kids?”

Mike Sawyer | The Free Thought Project
By Mike Sawyer | The Free Thought Project

Reports: We are constantly reminded via politicians, television, and the mainstream media in general of just how brave those “boys in blue” are to work in such “dangerous” conditions. The thin blue line, we’re told, is akin to storming the beaches at Normandy. But do these claims of mass danger and death hold water? Is it really necessary

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Supermarket Workers, Customers Join In ‘Unprecedented’ Uprising Against Corporate Greed

As strikes enter third week, workers and customers of Market Basket demand reinstatement of beloved CEO “Artie T.”

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley

A family-feud over a New England supermarket chain is emerging as one of the most compelling labor fights of the summer as well as, observers note, a cautionary tale to corporate America about the value of treating one's employees well. On Tuesday, thousands of employees of the Market Basket supermarket chain—from cashiers to warehouse workers

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UN Rights Panel Urges Qatar On Labor Law

Delegates at a U.N. Human Rights Council panel reviewing Qatar’s record on Wednesday repeatedly raised concerns about exploitation of workers in construction and domestic households.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

GENEVA — Qatar has been urged at the United Nations to abolish the sponsorship system tying migrant workers to employers. Delegates at a U.N. Human Rights Council panel reviewing Qatar's record on Wednesday repeatedly raised concerns about exploitation of workers in construction and domestic households. Several of 84 states speaking in the

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