NYC’s Private Garbage Industry Is Getting Overhauled. Can a Notorious Teamsters Local Clean Up Again?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Just after 4 one morning in the fall of 2019, long before COVID-19 upended New York City’s trash-hauling industry, a non-union sanitation worker and two organizers for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convened over orange juice in…
My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.GettyAmazon has long been accused of treating its workers as expendable. The stories of contract drivers forced to pee in bottles and warehouse employees whose labor is tracked down to the second have become infamous. But the…
The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo Domingo, on a cool morning in May 2019. We rode through the tourist zone, past whitewashed Spanish colonial buildings, pointing our truck toward…
I Worked as a Mail Carrier. My Boss Accused Me of “Malicious Compliance.”
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.GettyCarl Owen spent most of his adult life working for the United States Postal Service. Unlike other workers in our Bad Bosses series, he wasn’t unjustly fired. He wasn’t sexually harassed. He wasn’t forced to quit. He…
The Nonprofit Boss Who Had a “Special Hatred for Women of Color”
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Kaitlyn Ramirez Borysiewicz decided to take a job at a reproductive health nonprofit in Washington, DC, she was spurred by social injustice, devastated by the escalating hatred and racism of the 2016 election cycle that swept…
I Worked at a Prison. My Boss Stalked Me to Prove I Wasn’t Injured.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.LightFieldStudios/iStockphoto/GettyIt started back in 2016 after I tore my peroneal tendon in my ankle on the gun range. The agency fought tooth and nail with the office of workers’ comp not to approve a much-needed repair surgery. Two…