Corporate-Exploitation

Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster

2023-08-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On August 8, 2023, massive wildfires rage through Lahaina in West Maui, killing at least 100 people in the deadliest wildfire event in the United States in more than a century. The fires destroy thousands of homes and businesses in the historic town, reducing what was once a vibrant wetland …

Josh Green West Maui Land Company Glenn Tremble Kaleo Manuel Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) +2 more institutional-capture systematic-corruption indigenous-rights environmental-destruction disaster-capitalism +2 more

Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation

1972-03-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On March 3, 1972, workers at General Motors’ Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant authorized a 22-day strike after GM’s Assembly Division (GMAD)—which workers called “Get Mean And Destroy”—implemented brutal speedups that reduced task time to 35-second bursts with only 5-second …

United Auto Workers Local 1112 General Motors Assembly Division General Motors Corporation Senator Ted Kennedy labor-organizing democratic-resistance corporate-exploitation