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Richard Trumka – The DNA of a True Labor Movement Leader: A Day in the Life of AFL-CIO President
02/09/2021 Comments Off on Richard Trumka – The DNA of a True Labor Movement Leader: A Day in the Life of AFL-CIO PresidentBy Jon Hiatt | Aug 12, 2021 | OnLabor blog — Since the unexpected death of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on August 5, many who knew and worked with Rich have posted tributes focusing on a variety of leadership roles that he took on: in the Western Pennsylvania mines as a young health and safety […]
Continue reading …Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are
25/08/2021 Comments Off on Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are
In 2019, I wrote about how the NLRB’s decision in Ridgewood Health Care Centertook away one of the few effective remedies for employer misconduct. This was a case where a new employer took over a business and refused to hire the predecessor’s employees to avoid a bargaining obligation with the workers’ union. The old remedy […]
Continue reading …Job Corps Celebrates 57 Years Of Job Training For Young Adults
22/08/2021 Comments Off on Job Corps Celebrates 57 Years Of Job Training For Young Adults
By Rachel Torres • August 20, 2021 — This August, we’re celebrating the anniversary of Job Corps, the nation’s largest free residential job training program for young adults ages 16 through 24. Meeting the demand for skilled workers during the pandemic and beyond For 57 years, this Department of Labor program has been helping students […]
Continue reading …Prison Jobs – Rural Towns Deserve Better
19/08/2021 Comments Off on Prison Jobs – Rural Towns Deserve Better
The California Correctional Center, a prison in the small Northern California town of Susanville, is closing. I was pleased when I heard that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would be shutting down one of its 35 state prisons, and rushed to tell my wife the news. We both believe prisons do more harm […]
Continue reading …Teleperformance: Big Boss Is Watching You While You Work At Home
19/08/2021 Comments Off on Teleperformance: Big Boss Is Watching You While You Work At Home
By Jim Hightower | August 18, 2021 — If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about how committed they are to their employees, making sure that all of them are treated with dignity and respect. For example, the PR chief of a global […]
Continue reading …Two years after the largest workplace raid in U.S. history, undocumented workers deserve a path to citizenship
19/08/2021 Comments Off on Two years after the largest workplace raid in U.S. history, undocumented workers deserve a path to citizenship
By Rebekah Entralgo — Immigration agents arrested more than 600 undocumented workers at a poultry plant in Jackson, Mississippi two years ago in what remains the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded that U.S. officials take action to repair the harms inflicted […]
Continue reading …CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
16/08/2021 Comments Off on CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
By Sam Pizzigati — Ace researchers dropped two blockbuster reports on us earlier this week. The first — from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC — hit on Monday with a worldwide thunderclap. If top U.S. corporate execs are still pocketing jackpots a decade from now, our environment has no shot. Originally in Inequality.org […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- 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
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- 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
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill