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Earlier this month, the CEO of Reddit, Ellen Pao, announced the company would no longer allow employees to negotiate their salaries. Pao explained the move was an attempt to close the pay gap between women and men since, based on her experience, women are worse negotiators than men and as she put it, “From what I've heard from women, they…feel like there’s no way to win.”
Hanging on the wall above my desk as I write is a poster of Diego Rivera’s sumptuous painting, “The Flower Carrier,” with a peasant bent double, an overfilled, oversized basket on his back, packed with splendid pink and purple flowers, capturing the burdens and beauty of labor. To me, it’s hard to imagine labor or a labor movement without art—without novels like “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Hard Times,” without songs like “Joe Hill” and “Union Maid,” without paintings like Millet’s “Man with a Hoe” and Van Gogh’s “The Potato Eaters,” without films like “Norma Rae,” “On the Waterfront” and “Harlan County U.S.A.”
Surveillance video from a Louisiana jail shows a guard throwing a prisoner to the ground and stomping him, and a dog biting the prisoner.
Oluyemisi Adebayo was arrested Wednesday as she prepared to board a flight to Africa. The NYPD charged her in the murder of Naomi Mondesire.
A pair of pizza thieves ended up in jail instead of rolling in dough after trying to sell stolen pies to Alaska police.
For the first time in about a century, overflow from Kilauea volcano's lava lake is creating a fiery spectacle attracting thousands of spectators.
More than 100 people were arrested in New York after thousands rallied in coast-to-coast protests over the death of Freddie Gray who died in police custody in Baltimore.
Described by some as a protest in solidarity with Baltimore, police said pepper spray was used to control crowds during arrests.
Described by some as a protest in solidarity with Baltimore, police said pepper spray was used to control crowds during arrests.
Newly released court documents show that a grisly shooting that left two people dead and a third seriously injured was related to a marijuana deal. KGW's Mike Benner reports.
