Mark Maynard | unions

Wet Seal closes stores without notice, screws employees, gives CFO a $95,000 raise

By Mark | January 5, 2015

With the holiday shopping season now behind us, the struggling clothing retailer Wet Seal made a move this weekend to quietly close several of their stores. They did so with practically no notice, leaving many of their long-time employees without jobs, and no way to pay their bills. These employees, understandably, are none too pleased. […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1%, 99%, anti-worker, bankruptcy, Birmingham, Briarwood Mall, Dayton, Dublin, Hudson Bay Master Fund, liquidation, Los Angeles, Ohio, Retail, Seattle, Thomas Hillebrandt, Wet Seal, worker rights | 44 Comments

Ypsilanti’s most despicable son, Harry Bennett

By Mark | June 2, 2014

In advance of the release of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, which is set to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Salon.com is running a salacious excerpt on the questionable activities of Ford enforcer, and notorious Ypsilanti resident, Harry Bennett. Here’s a taste. Henry Ford was […]

Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A Stiff Game, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, Chester LaMare, Detroit, Ford Service Department, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford, labor history, porn, private police force, Rouge plant, Sailor Reese, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, The Casting Director, the Ford stomach, union busting | 14 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Robert Helms on Guinea Pig Zero

By Mark | February 23, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, rusty sliver of it that infected me 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I respected back in the day, during the period which many of us still consider to be […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott Labs, abortion, Agent 355, alcoholism, Alexis Buss, Alexis St. Martin, Alison Lewis, Ameoterone, American revolution, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, anarchists, anarchy, atheist, Auschwitz, Betsy Ross, Big Cheese, bioethics, bossicide, Brew Squat, Bruce Orr, cats, Centereach, cheese, cheese money, chocolate, clinical trials, death penalty, digestion, Dishwasher, documentary film, Donald McCabe, Donno Layton, drug development, Edgar Allan Poe, Eva Mozes Kor, experiments, France, Free Voice, freethinker, fuck, gene therapy, Guinea Pig Zero, Harper’s, health care, Hershey’s Kisses, human guinea pig, human test subjects, Indianapolis, International Workers of the World, IWW, James Bond, Jeff Kelly, Jesse Gelsinger, Johnson Space Center, Jonestown, Josef Mengele, Keffo, Kenosha, Kinko's, labor law, Lehigh Valley, liver, Long Island, lying, Mackinac Island, medical experimentation, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nazis, Neptune, New Jersey, New York Times Magazine, Off Label, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, patient zero, Paul Gelsinger, Pennsylvania, Pete Jordan, pharmacokinetics, Phil Buchanan, Philadelphia, placebos, printing, Prozac, psych drugs, Randall Phillip, Ritalin, Robert Helms, scams, secret agents, sleep deprivation, SmithKline Beecham, squats, stomach, syphilis, Temp Slave, The Age of Reason, The Untold History of Zines, This American Life, Thomas Paine, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, twins, underground press, union organizing, University of Pennsylvania, vasovagal syncope, William Beaumont, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Books, workplace violence, Wyeth-Ayerst, zines | 13 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Pete “Dishwasher Pete” Jordan on Dishwasher

By Mark | January 28, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that worked its way through the gristle surrounding my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of the zine publishers that I know, and asking them how they found […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1992, 1994, 2001, 50 state projects, adventure, Alaska, Alaska Fishermen’s Union, Allen Ginsberg, Amsterdam, Andy Kaufman, anonymity, Arizona, autobiographical, before the internet, bicycles, cannery, chain restaurants, Chloe Eudaly, Communism, Cracker Barrel, Craphound, creative control, cruise ships, cycling, David Letterman, dishdogs, dishes, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, dishwashing, drinking on the job, eschewing responsibility, expatriate, Factsheet Five, Farm Pulp, fish processing, free stuff, gags, Grand Canyon, Greg Hischak, Guinea Pig Zero, Haight -Ashbury, Hawaii, Huck Finn, humor, impersonation, In the City of Bikes, individual responsibility, integrity, internet, introverts, Jack-in-the-Box, juvenile delinquent, Kentucky, Kinko's, Kraft, labor history, labor movement, Late Night with David Letterman, mac and cheese, mainstream media, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, media consolidation, Myrtle Beach, National Parks, people who we know from television, Pete Jordan, Phoenix, photocopying, pranks, radical politics, Reading Frenzy, responsibility, restaurants, restlessness, revolution, Richard Nixon, San Francisco, Scam, scams, self-publishing, shitty jobs, Silicon Valley, South Carolina, Sufjan Steven, television, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, theft, This American Life, Uncle Tom, underground press, urban planning, zines | 21 Comments

How Dick DeVos made Michigan a right-to-work state

By Mark | January 26, 2014

If you haven’t read it yet, Andy Kroll has a great piece on the DeVos family in the most recent issue of Mother Jones. Of particular interest to me was the section detailing how Dick DeVos pretty much single-handedly orchestrated the passage of so-called “right-to-work” legislation last year. Here’s a clip. …For Dick DeVos, the […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ALEC, Amway, Andy Kroll, anti-union, Bill McInturff, collective bargaining, corporate money, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Dick DeVos, Frank Keating, Greg McNeilly, Harold Simmons, Jennifer Granholm, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Michigan Freedom Fund, Proposition 2, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, Sheldon Adelson, union busting | 25 Comments

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Wet Seal closes stores without notice, screws employees, gives CFO a $95,000 raise

Ypsilanti’s most despicable son, Harry Bennett

The Untold History of Zines…. Robert Helms on Guinea Pig Zero

The Untold History of Zines…. Pete “Dishwasher Pete” Jordan on Dishwasher

How Dick DeVos made Michigan a right-to-work state

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