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Feds Will Run Health Insurance Marketplaces In 25 States
18/02/2013 Comments Off on Feds Will Run Health Insurance Marketplaces In 25 States
By PHIL GALEWITZ and ALVIN TRAN, KHN— It’s official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states— including the major population centers of Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. The federal government had hoped more states last week would agree to form a partnership health insurance exchange—the deadline to apply was Friday, […]
Continue reading …Americans For Job Security: Nonprofit’s Election Year Spending Spikes, Opposes Obama
07/02/2013 Comments Off on Americans For Job Security: Nonprofit’s Election Year Spending Spikes, Opposes Obama
By DAVE LEVINTHAL, The Center For Public Integrity— Pro-business powerhouse Americans for Job Security cannot, by federal law, make politics its primary purpose. But as contentious federal elections and state-level ballot initiatives raged during 2012, the nonprofit organizationʼs income spiked at least tenfold compared to 2011, a non-election year, records show. The cash windfall fueled tens […]
Continue reading …Union Membership in the U.S. Takes Another Big Hit In 2012, At 76-Year Low
24/01/2013 Comments Off on Union Membership in the U.S. Takes Another Big Hit In 2012, At 76-Year Low
Opponents of labor union membership in the United States had a very successful couple of years during 2011 and 2012. Union membership nationwide reached a 76-year record low, during 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Jan. 23, 2013. In 2012, the union membership rate — the percentage of wage and salary workers who […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training
09/10/2012 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup Urges Employers Work With Educators To Advance Job Training
International staffing firm ManpowerGroup is advocating that U.S. companies develop the skills of their local populations by collaborating with regional educators The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released 5 October 2012, reported the overall September jobless rate declined to 7.8 % from August’s 8.1% rate. The U.S. private sector added 114,000 new jobs last month, […]
Continue reading …EEOC Suit: O’Reilly Auto Parts Manager Seeks Leave For Medical Treatment, Gets Fired
05/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Suit: O’Reilly Auto Parts Manager Seeks Leave For Medical Treatment, Gets Fired
Heath Craft, the manager of an O’Reilly auto parts store in Beloit, Wis., learned in February 2011 that he had a seizure disorder, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On 9 March 2011, Craft notified O’Reilly of his ailment. He asked for a one-month leave of absence for treatment. Instead of granting his […]
Continue reading …In Michigan National Unions And Chamber Of Commerce Slug It Out
03/10/2012 Comments Off on In Michigan National Unions And Chamber Of Commerce Slug It Out
By Paul Abowd, Center For Public Integrity— After two bruising years for organized labor in the Midwest, the movement has managed to land two pro-union measures on the November ballot in Michigan. Michigan locals and their national leaders now face an ad campaign by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and its friends, urging voters to resist […]
Continue reading …Can Co-Operatives Conquer Capitalism And Change The Way The World Works?
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Can Co-Operatives Conquer Capitalism And Change The Way The World Works?
By WAYNE ELLWOOD, New Internationalist — In the eyes of the mainstream media and the high priests of the free market, Argentina just doesn’t get it. This past May, the country was savaged by the international business press for nationalizing the Spanish-owned oil company, YPF. Scarcely mentioned was the fact that Argentina’s oil and gas […]
Continue reading …Supreme Court Health Care Law Ruling Puts Pressure On States To Act
28/06/2012 Comments Off on Supreme Court Health Care Law Ruling Puts Pressure On States To Act
By PHIL GALEWITZ and MARILYN WERBER SERAFINI, KHN Staff Writers– The Supreme Court has given states a way out of expanding their Medicaid programs under the health law, and top Republican officials in several states were quick to say they want to take that step. But governors will be under strong pressure to take the […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
06/03/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods CasesEEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases By LAURA LIEBECK — American workers prevailed in three separate discrimination cases recently settled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In Tennessee, the owners of Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Hartsville and Lafayette, Tn., must pay $40,000 to settle a race and gender discrimination lawsuit filed […]
Continue reading …OSHA Fines Jennie-O Turkey After Worker’s Arm Amputated
15/02/2012 Comments Off on OSHA Fines Jennie-O Turkey After Worker’s Arm Amputated
After losing an arm below the shoulder when a turkey-gutting machine accidentally turned on, a worker at Jennie-O plant in Barron, Wis., had to walk down a flight of 25 stairs and 200 feet across the production floor before reaching a co-worker for assistance. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited […]
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