Vol. 77/No. 8      March 4, 2013

I do pass the paper around here so people can get a news source that hasn’t been diluted by moneyed and imperialistic interests. Even people that don’t quite lean so socialist like the working-class perspective of the paper. And a lot of former union workers like to read the articles on picket lines and labor struggles.

A prisoner
Arizona

‘Green’ capitalists
Bloom Energy Corporation is considered on the cutting edge of “green” generator technology, producing power generators used for data servers and other applications.

The company was fined by the U.S. Department of Labor for bringing 14 welding equipment operators and welders to Sunnyvale, Calif., from Chihuahua, Mexico, and paying them in pesos the equivalent of $2.66 an hour with no overtime pay for up to 55 hours a week for a two-year period.

The federal government forced Bloom to pay $31,922 in back wages to each of the 14 workers. News reports do not say what happened to them. Most likely they went to another fight somewhere else.

Raul Gonzalez
Redwood City, Calif.  
 
 
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