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Amazon’s New ‘Factory Towns’ Will Lift the Working Class
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Amazon’s New ‘Factory Towns’ Will Lift the Working ClassPlentiful new jobs at higher wages in places with cheaper housing sounds like a solution to inequality.
Continue reading …Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate seems controversial now — but Americans will come around in the end
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate seems controversial now — but Americans will come around in the endBiden’s workplace vaccine mandate faces GOP opposition and legal challenges. But business groups seem to be in favor.
Continue reading …‘I worry what’s going to happen’: how Covid has made airline work risky and exhausting in the US
16/09/2021 Comments Off on ‘I worry what’s going to happen’: how Covid has made airline work risky and exhausting in the USAirline industry ‘I worry what’s going to happen’: how Covid has made airline work risky and exhausting in the US As flight attendants are forced to manage disruptive passengers, other workers in the industry get by with no health insurance or sick leave Michael Sainato Thu 16 Sep 2021 05.00 EDT Last modified on Thu […]
Continue reading …How to Cope When Everyone Around You Is Quitting
15/09/2021 Comments Off on How to Cope When Everyone Around You Is Quitting
Advice for burned-out employees who don’t have the luxury of leaving or feel obligated to stay at their current jobs.
Continue reading …Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chainAmid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic levelby …
Continue reading …Working Parents Want Remote Work After Pandemic, Survey Finds
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Working Parents Want Remote Work After Pandemic, Survey Finds
In a post-pandemic world, 61% of working parents want remote work full-time, while 37% prefer a hybrid work arrangement, according to a survey commissioned by Flexjobs.com. Additionally, 62% say they would quit their current job if they can’t continue remote work. Between March and April 2021, FlexJobs.com, a remote work employment website, surveyed more than […]
Continue reading …Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day
By Kevin Vazquez | Sep 15, 2021 | — Last week, on Labor Day, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families lost federal unemployment benefits, and nearly three million more had their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week. The Biden administration, despite the entreaties of many workers, activists, labor unions, and other organizations, […]
Continue reading …First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
15/09/2021 Comments Off on First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has filed a remote work ADA discrimination lawsuit in what has been called a first-of-its-kind case that could decide businesses’ obligation to allow employees to work from home as a disability accommodation. ISS Facility Services, Inc., a Denmark-based workplace experience and facility management company with U.S. headquarters in […]
Continue reading …Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for years
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for yearsGoogle Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for years More than 140 workers sign petition decrying ‘massive moral failing’ following Guardian revelations Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco @juliacarriew Wed 15 Sep 2021 16.45 EDT Last modified on Wed 15 Sep 2021 18.05 EDT Google employees and subcontracted workers are demanding that […]
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
Today’s News & Commentary — September 16th, 2021
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — September 16th, 2021Yesterday, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum urging agency field staff to seek a more expansive set of remedies in settlement agreements with employers. As noted in the Board’s press release, the document builds on a previous memo released last week by Abruzzo, which directed agency leaders to pursue […]
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