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More Than Numbers: How COVID-19 is Impacting Working Women
Over the past several months, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau has been asking women to tell us about their personal experiences during the pandemic, and what support they need going forward. By: Eleanor Delamater, Gretchen Livingston • July 21, 2021 Over the past several months, the Women’s Bureau has been asking women to […]
Farmworkers Overtime Pay Expanded, Historic California Legislation
12/09/2016 Comments Off on Farmworkers Overtime Pay Expanded, Historic California Legislation
From the Los Angeles Times — With little fanfare, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed historic legislation that would expand overtime pay for California farmworkers. Assembly Bill 1066, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzalez (D-San Diego), calls for a phase-in of new overtime rules over four years beginning in 2019. It would lower the […]
Continue reading …Walmart Workers – With Raises For Some More Hours Is Next Goal
25/02/2015 Comments Off on Walmart Workers – With Raises For Some More Hours Is Next Goal
By HIROKO TABUCHI — Even with the wage increases the chain recently announced, Walmart workers often do not get enough hours to make ends meet, leaving them in a precarious financial state. Read more about Walmart workers at the source: The New York Times – The New American Job Newsfeed What raises mean for Walmart Workers – From […]
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By Marjorie E. Wood – A new law in San Francisco to curb erratic retail scheduling practices could be the first of many. In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law of its kind in the nation. The focus of the new law might […]
Continue reading …More Women Than Men Earn Minimum Wage
06/05/2014 Comments Off on More Women Than Men Earn Minimum Wage
Far more women than men have jobs paying minimum wage or less, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. More than half the U.S. workforce is male at 53%. But of those who earning minimum wage or less, 62% are women and 38% are men, according to the study. According […]
Continue reading …Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
10/05/2013 Comments Off on Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
AlterNet— A new movement of fast food workers demanding better wages and the right to unionize spread this week to St. Louis and Detroit, bringing the total number of such actions to four in five weeks. Similar strikes occurred last month in New York and Chicago. As during the strike in New York, we’ve put together […]
Continue reading …St. Louis Joins Wave Of Fast Food Strikes
09/05/2013 Comments Off on St. Louis Joins Wave Of Fast Food Strikes
By LAURA CLAWSON, Daily Kos Labor— May 8 and 9, fast food strikes have hit St. Louis, with workers at a Jimmy John‘s and a McDonald’s walking out Wednesday evening and workers at more restaurants Thursday morning. New York fast food workers staged a one-day strike on April 4. Chicago fast food and retail workers […]
Continue reading …Highest EEOC Verdict In History $240 Million For Abuse Of Mentally Disabled Men
01/05/2013 Comments Off on Highest EEOC Verdict In History $240 Million For Abuse Of Mentally Disabled Men
The federal government won a record $240 million settlement against a turkey producer that held 32 mentally disabled men in servitude while mentally and physically abusing them, some of them for more than 20 years. A Davenport, Iowa jury on May 1, 2013, awarded the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) damages totaling $240 million […]
Continue reading …OSHA Launches Initiative To Help Protect Temporary Workers
30/04/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Launches Initiative To Help Protect Temporary Workers
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. The announcement was made during a program at the department’s headquarters marking Workers’ Memorial Day — an annual observance to honor workers who have died on the job and renew a commitment to […]
Continue reading …Nurses Fighting State By State For Minimum Staffing Laws
25/04/2013 Comments Off on Nurses Fighting State By State For Minimum Staffing Laws
By DAVID SCHULTZ, KHN— How many nurses does it take to run a hospital? Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are trying to answer that question as they debate bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times. So far, only one state […]
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