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By 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 …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 …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 …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 …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 …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 …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 […]
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