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Dark and Bitter: Food workers increasingly exist in a legal limbo with no protections for wages, benefits, job security, or life and limb. Why are employers like Hershey off the hook?

Date: October 2, 2009

Author: Nancy Cleeland

QUOTE: In this new world, workers are paid only when needed. There are no more messy layoffs -- merely the end of an assignment. All the risks are shifted to workers. Staffing agencies often tout their services as giving employees flexibility and variety, but [Nik] Theodore's research shows they are worse off by many measures.

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Article MetaInformation:

Key People:

• Prof. Nik Theodore

Key Organizations:

• American Prospect
• Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Hershey Company
• Kraft Foods
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• RJR Nabisco
• United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Choices/Tolerance/Flexibility
  • Risk Taking
  • Tactics

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Ethics (Organizational)
    • Codes of Organizational Conduct
  • Human Resource Development: General
    • Firing/Layoffs
    • Hiring / Recruitment
    • Unions/Labor Movement
    • Wages/Benefits
    • Working Conditions / Sweatshops

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Government Regulation
      • Business Regulation

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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