Each day more people purchase goods via the internet but how many stop to think about who packs each item for shipping? Mother Jones human rights reporter Mac McClelland (@MacMcClelland) on her experience as a Warehouse Wage Slave. She uncovers the dehumanizing working conditions, the back breaking labor, long shifts, low wages and the quota insanity that it takes to prep merchandise for shipping. Click thru to read her article. Plus, Bill Lazonick, professor and director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at UMass Lowell, discusses how corporate behavior has changed over the past 50 years, why funding the future has gone out of favor and the impact on our society and economy. And for members, Ron Pollack the Founding Executive Director of Families USA, talks the implications of the Affordable Care Act, the individual mandate and what it might mean if the bill is struck down.
Mac McClellan’s Mother Jones article, “I was a Warehouse Wage Slave”.