Thursday, December 6, 2012

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Steven Greenhouse

Steven Greenhouse is the labor and workplace reporter for The New York Times, having held that beat since October 1995.

He joined The Times in September 1983 as a business reporter, covering steel and other basic industries. He then spent two-and-a-half years as the newspaper’s Midwestern business correspondent based in Chicago. In 1987, he moved to Paris, where served as The Times’s European economics correspondent, covering everything from Western Europe’s economy to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. After five years in Paris, he became a correspondent in Washington for four years, first covering economics and the Federal Reserve and then the State Department and foreign affairs.

As labor and workplace reporter, he has covered many topics, including poverty among the nation’s farm workers, Wal-Mart stores locking in their workers at night, labor’s role in politics, the shortcomings of New York State's workers compensation system and the battles to roll back collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Mr. Greenhouse, a native of Massapequa, N.Y., is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1973), the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1975) and the New York University School of Law (1982).

Immediately before joining The Times, he clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 1976 to 1979, he was a reporter at the The Record in Hackensack, N.J.

His book, "The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker," was published in April 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf. "The Big Squeeze" was published in paperback in February 2009 and won the 2009 Sidney Hillman Book Prize for nonfiction.

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Documents Indicate Walmart Blocked Safety Push in Bangladesh
Documents Indicate Walmart Blocked Safety Push in Bangladesh

The company played the lead role in halting an effort to have global retailers pay more for apparel to help Bangladesh factories improve their electrical and fire safety, officials also said.

December 6, 2012, Thursday
E.E.O.C. Finds Race Bias in Firing at Wet Seal Store
E.E.O.C. Finds Race Bias in Firing at Wet Seal Store

The commission said Wet Seal managers “stated they wanted employees who had the ‘Armani look, were white, had blue eyes, thin and blond in order to be profitable.’ ”

December 4, 2012, Tuesday
Small Employers Weigh Impact of Providing Health Insurance
Small Employers Weigh Impact of Providing Health Insurance

Businesses like restaurants and hotels that rely heavily on low-income workers are trying to decide how to change their business models for the new health care law.

December 1, 2012, Saturday
In Drive to Unionize, Fast-Food Workers Walk Off the Job

Leaders of the effort said workers were protesting what they said were low wages and retaliation against several workers who have backed the campaign.

November 29, 2012, Thursday
A Study of Home Help Finds Low Worker Pay
A Study of Home Help Finds Low Worker Pay

The study of domestic workers recommended including them under state minimum wage protections and other safeguards.

November 27, 2012, Tuesday
Wal-Mart Plays Down Labor Protests at Its Stores
Wal-Mart Plays Down Labor Protests at Its Stores

A labor group said it organized protests at 1,000 Walmarts to push for higher wages and better benefits, but the retailer said the demonstrations were mere sideshows.

November 24, 2012, Saturday
Court Allows Liquidation of Hostess

Judge Robert D. Drain of the Southern District of New York cited the need for a quick and orderly shuttering of the company to avoid letting its assets molder.

November 21, 2012
Wal-Mart Workers File Complaint With U.S. Labor Board

Employees said a warning from the company that “there could be consequences” for not reporting to work constituted an illegal threat.

November 21, 2012, Wednesday
Hostess Brands Says It Fails to Reach Labor Deal in Mediation

Union officials say the company, the producer of such brands as Twinkies and Wonder Bread, has indicated it will proceed with plans to liquidate.

November 20, 2012
Labor Board to Act Swiftly on Wal-Mart’s Complaint

The retailer is asking for an injunction to stop anti-Wal-Mart protests planned for this week.

November 20, 2012, Tuesday

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