LabourStart and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) have launched McJobs.org, a website intended to connect McDonald's workers from around the world.

There has been controversy over the term "McJob", which refers to low-paying, contingent work in the service industry. McDonald's objected when Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added the term in 2003.

Scores of employees gathered to help Bob Moore celebrate his 81st birthday...Moore...responded with a gift of his own -- the whole company. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan Moore unveiled means that his 209 employees now own the place and its 400 offerings of stone-ground flours, cereals and bread mixes. Read more here: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/02/bobs_red_mil...

A new EPI report show that one in four African American and Latino workers are currently underemployed compared to 14% of white workers. Those numbers include not only the government's official unemployment figures, but also account for discouraged and "involuntary part-time" workers.

Find out what the RadicalsAtWork.org editorial committee is thinking and planning this week.

“Just remember, if you’re not stealing from work, you’re stealing from your family,” a young woman declares in a video promoting Steal Something From Work Day.  The April 15th event encourages stealing from work as a protest against capitalism as a system that derives profit from unpaid labor, which itself is “stolen” from workers.

Whether or not it represents a comprehensive anti-capitalist strategy, history has shown theft to be tactic widely utilized by workers and consumers during economic crisis.  In the 1970s, radical economics professor Harry Cleaver noted that workers in the US practiced widespread “self-reduction” of rising prices by refusing to pay for food, gas and utilities.

For two weeks in January Belgian brewery workers blocked roads, set fire to beer crates, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer as part of their tactics against job cuts proposed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer.

Old-school radical history focused on the debates between radical leaders, and ignored what militant workers were thinking and doing.

In this presentation at the new study group From Struggle to Socialism, scholar Charlie Post flips that old method upside-down.

Who are the real heroes of the American workplace? A new reality show called "undercover boss" argues that its CEOs. Read more about it here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-ae.zontv07feb07,0,6004171....