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Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Anti-Union Law As Unconstitutional
15/09/2012 Comments Off on Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Anti-Union Law As Unconstitutional
A Wisconsin judge has struck down key sections of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti-labor law, known as Act 10. Circuit Judge Juan B. Colas wrote in his decision that sections of the law “single out and encumber the rights of those employees who choose union membership and representation solely because of that association and […]
Continue reading …Secret Ballot Laws Could Create Constitutional Conflicts, Judge Says
08/09/2012 Comments Off on Secret Ballot Laws Could Create Constitutional Conflicts, Judge Says
A federal judge found that an Arizona state constitutional amendment controlling how employees choose a union – the so-called “secret ballot” amendment – may be preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. Whether the Arizona legislation will conflict with the NRLA will depend on how the amendment is actually used. U.S. District Court Judge Frederick […]
Continue reading …Hospitals Celebrate Supreme Court Health Care Reform Law Decision
29/06/2012 Comments Off on Hospitals Celebrate Supreme Court Health Care Reform Law Decision
By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer– Everybody agreed hospitals would be the biggest business losers if the Supreme Court overthrew the health care reform act. But the ruling that preserves most of the law — along with the promise of billions in extra hospital revenue — raises new problems for the industry. Hospital bosses applauded and […]
Continue reading …KHN – Health Care On Trial, Arguments At The Supreme Court, Day 2
27/03/2012 Comments Off on KHN – Health Care On Trial, Arguments At The Supreme Court, Day 2From the Kaiser Health News service of the Kaiser Family Foundation here are excerpts of Tuesday’s oral arguments in the before the Supreme Court on the validity of the insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act. 27 MARCH 2012 In the arguments before the Supreme Court Tuesday on the insurance mandate – sometimes referred to […]
Continue reading …While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce
12/03/2012 Comments Off on While Canada Recruits Overseas Alberta Develops Homegrown Workforce
While Canadian companies recruit in Ireland in search of skilled workers, some provinces still have very high unemployment rates in certain areas, especially among native peoples. In the oil-boom town of Calgary, Alberta, the unemployment rate dropped to 5.2% in February 2012 from 5.4% in January 2012. In Edmonton, Alberta, the January unemployment rate was […]
Continue reading …AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
16/02/2012 Comments Off on AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
During the past decade, working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan has been one of the more dangerous ways to make a living. Private contractors have been front and center in the U.S. military’s involvement Afghanistan, just as they were in both wars in Iraq. Contractors have been responsible for supplying […]
Continue reading …Spain’s Socialists Face Losses Over 20% Unemployment
03/10/2011 Comments Off on Spain’s Socialists Face Losses Over 20% Unemployment
From AFP: In the face of a possible major defeat at the polls, Spanish ruling party’s candidate for prime minister in the country’s November elections, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has pledged to cut record unemployment and shield education and health care from spending cuts. Rubalcaba, who was interior minister and deputy prime minister, is the Socialists’ candidate […]
Continue reading …Conservatives in UK Want Jobseekers to Work Harder
02/10/2011 Comments Off on Conservatives in UK Want Jobseekers to Work Harder
From The Guardian (UK) — Jobseekers will have to do more to prove they are seeking work or face losing benefits in measures likely to be announced at the Conservative party conference. At present jobseekers have to satisfy two criteria: putting together a CV and seeking information about a job, which ministers believe are not […]
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