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NYC Fast-Food Workers Fight Back Against Super-Sized Corporations
17/04/2013 Comments Off on NYC Fast-Food Workers Fight Back Against Super-Sized Corporations
By PETER RUGH, Waging Nonviolence— Tianna Smalls had planned on working Thursday, April 4, 2013, but her colleagues convinced her otherwise. “‘You’re either with us, or you’re for Wendy’s,’” Smalls remembers her co-workers telling her. Her mother also weighed in Thursday morning as Smalls was heading to work at the franchise in downtown Brooklyn. “She said, […]
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The National Federation of Nurses and the American Federation of Teachers, the largest union of professionals in the AFL-CIO, announced an affiliation agreement Thursday, Feb, 14, 2013. The agreement brings 34,000 registered nurses into teachers union, whose 1.5 million members include more than 48,000 nurses and thousands of other health care professionals. The affiliation agreement […]
Continue reading …NLRB Finds New York City School Bus Strike Is Legal
01/02/2013 Comments Off on NLRB Finds New York City School Bus Strike Is Legal
New York’s school bus strike can keep rolling. A strike by New York City bus drivers is legal and may continue, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled. The NLRB has found that a strike by union bus operators against a group of New York school bus companies does not violate the National Labor Relations […]
Continue reading …NRLB Sets Terms To Dismisses Wal-mart Picketing Complaint Against Union
31/01/2013 Comments Off on NRLB Sets Terms To Dismisses Wal-mart Picketing Complaint Against Union
A union seeking better conditions for Wal-mart workers worker won a a partial legal victory today, Jan. 31, 2013, as the National Labor Relations Board ruled to dismiss an unfair labor practice complaint filed by against the world’s employer against the union. The case involved picketing and protests at Wal-mart stores. The NRLB agreed to dismiss an unfair labor practice filed […]
Continue reading …Union Membership in the U.S. Takes Another Big Hit In 2012, At 76-Year Low
24/01/2013 Comments Off on Union Membership in the U.S. Takes Another Big Hit In 2012, At 76-Year Low
Opponents of labor union membership in the United States had a very successful couple of years during 2011 and 2012. Union membership nationwide reached a 76-year record low, during 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Jan. 23, 2013. In 2012, the union membership rate — the percentage of wage and salary workers who […]
Continue reading …ALEC’s Decades Of ‘Right-To-Work’ Effort Pay Off In Michigan
04/01/2013 Comments Off on ALEC’s Decades Of ‘Right-To-Work’ Effort Pay Off In Michigan
By PAUL ABOWD, Center for Public Integrity—Amid protests by labor unions, and objections from the stateʼs congressional delegation and even the president, Michiganʼs Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work” bill into law in December 11, 2012, drawn word-for-word from a 32-year-old “model bill” pushed by a corporate-funded, conservative think tank. The legislation deals a […]
Continue reading …ILO Names Five Worst Nations For Suppressing Labor Organizing
05/12/2012 Comments Off on ILO Names Five Worst Nations For Suppressing Labor Organizing
ILO News– The International Labour Organization has named Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji and Peru – out of 32 cases examined – as the most serious violators freedom of association and labor organizing. The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association examined cases concerning employers’ and trade unions’ rights to organize, collective bargaining and social dialogue. The […]
Continue reading …California Warehouse Worker Lawsuit Targets Wal-Mart
01/12/2012 Comments Off on California Warehouse Worker Lawsuit Targets Wal-Mart
By JIM MORRIS and ADITHYA SAMBAMURTHY, Center for Public Integrity, MIRA LOMA, Calif.– Lawyers alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a Southern California warehouse complex took steps to add Wal-Mart as a defendant in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The move is expected to draw the nation’s largest retailer into a case in which it had, […]
Continue reading …NLRB Decides 341 Cases In Fiscal 2012, Including Some Of Its Oldest
16/10/2012 Comments Off on NLRB Decides 341 Cases In Fiscal 2012, Including Some Of Its Oldest
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued decisions in 341 cases during fiscal 2012, 1 Oct. 2011 through 30 Sept. 2012, tackling many of its oldest cases. The NLRB cut the median age of pending cases in half, resolving nine of the 10 oldest cases it faced at the start 2012, . The age of pending cases dropped […]
Continue reading …OSHA, Airline Ground Safety Panel Renew Ground Crew Safety Alliance
13/10/2012 Comments Off on OSHA, Airline Ground Safety Panel Renew Ground Crew Safety Alliance
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) renewed its alliance with the Airline Ground Safety Panel to address hazards and worker injuries relating to operating aviation ground support equipment. The Airline Ground Safety Panel is a joint industry and labor partnership. The panel consists of 11 airline companies and three unions representing 350,000 workers, representing […]
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- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
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- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
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- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
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- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
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- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
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- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
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- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
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