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Today’s News & Commentary — July 28, 2021
28/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 28, 2021
Since hitting its peak of more than 3 million shots per day in mid-April, the mass-vaccination campaign has dwindled and waned in the United States, dropping to a current rate of around half a million daily jabs, alarming government officials both in the Biden Administration and in state public health departments across the country as […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — July 27, 2021
27/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 27, 2021Analysis of the NLRB’s decision last week to save Scabby the Rat (Lippert Components Inc., 371 NLRB No. 8 (2021)), which Maxwell wrote about last week, continues to roll in. Meagan Day, in Jacobin, celebrated the decision, which she said turned away a “pathetic…attempt at extermination” by former NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb. Day noted […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary—July 26, 2021
26/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary—July 26, 2021“Union jobs are about to be so dope,” the New York Post declared on Sunday evening in an article about the labor movement’s optimism about New York State’s nascent cannabis industry. The state legalized the recreational use of marijuana in March and included as part of that legislation a requirement that firms involved in “cultivating, […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary – July 22, 2021
22/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary – July 22, 2021Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided, party-line vote to end Senate debate on the nominee, marks an end to a bitterly partisan Senate debate […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary – July 21, 2021
21/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary – July 21, 2021Today’s headline is that Jeff Bezos visited space. Of the $5.5 million dollar expenditure, he commented the following: “[I] want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So seriously, for every Amazon customer out there, and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — July 19, 2021
19/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 19, 2021A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin returned a verdict of over $125 million against Walmart in the case of a woman with Down syndrome who the retailer failed to accommodate and then fired, the New York Times reports. The action was brought by the E.E.O.C. The jury awarded […]
Continue reading …Weekend News & Commentary – July 18, 2021
18/07/2021 Comments Off on Weekend News & Commentary – July 18, 2021New research suggests that extreme heat produces many more workplace injuries, concentrated among the poorest workers, than most official records suggest—a telling example of how, as the Times puts it, “climate change worsens inequality.” The UCLA study, led by public policy professor R. Jisung Park, compared records from over 11 million California workers’ compensation claims […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — July 16, 2021
16/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 16, 2021Today, U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman from New York is introducing a “Green New Deal for Public Schools” which would fund 1.3 million jobs a year by hiring and training more teachers and reducing student-to-staff ratios. It would also direct more money to schools with high rates of poverty, increase social services for students (including psychologists […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — July 15, 2021
15/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 15, 2021The Senate Democrats’ new budget reconciliation bill plans to financially penalize companies that violate workers’ rights. The proposal is planned to be embedded into the $3.5 trillion bill, utilizing the National Labor Relations Board to levy penalties where appropriate. Senator Bernie Sanders remarked that this provision would be part of the PRO Act’s integration into […]
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 — July 29, 2021
29/07/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — July 29, 2021Employee are fighting back against Activision Blizzard, one of the largest companies in the world, as it continues to reel over recent revelations of rampant sexual harassment and discrimination. The video game company, known for its production of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, was sued by the State of California. Allegations against the […]
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