Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Prisoners at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Ala. in 2011. Cell phone footage of an attack in Donaldson that left one man dead surfaced this weekend. | Dave Martin/AP Last Friday, five days after Alabama prisoners launched a statewide labor strike, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey assured reporters that the head of the state’s beleaguered corrections […]
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What Year Is It? Five States have Slavery on the Ballot | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- September 23, 2022
- 13th
- Abolitionism
- Bianca Tylek
- Debt bondage
- Economic history of the United States
- Involuntary servitude
- Jeff Merkley
- Krysta Bisnauth
- labor
- Nikema Williams
- Penal labor in the United States
- Penal labour
- Reconstruction Era
- slavery
- social issues
- The Root
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Unfree labour
Photo: Castelski (Shutterstock) During the November midterm elections, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont will have to vote whether or not to fully abolish slavery, according to Yahoo! News. Now, we’re obviously not talking about whips and chains. We’re talking about that sly loophole in the 13th Amendment that subjects those convicted of a crime […]
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Stronger unions on the rise in north Alabama according to North Alabama Area Labor Council leader | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Public opinion of organized labor unions is higher than it’s been in decades according to a new Gallup poll and north Alabama labor leaders say they can see the growing support in the area. Gallup reports that 71% of Americans now approve of labor unions. This is up from 64% before […]
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Children as young as 12 working in Hyundai-owned plant in Alabama – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
In this Jan. 27, 2011, file photo, a Hyundai Elantra, left, and Hyundai Sonatas move down the assembly line in the Hyundai manufacturing plant in Montgomery, Ala. The factory is supplied with parts from the Hyundai-owned SMART plant, a metal stamping facility where rampant exploitation of child labor has been exposed. | Mickey Welsh / […]
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