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Google Full Time Employees Petition Management To Pay Cheated Temps
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Google Full Time Employees Petition Management To Pay Cheated Temps
September 16, 2021 — Dozens of Google full time employees signed a petition addressed to Google’s executives calling for tech giant to immediately pay back all temps, vendors and contractors — referred to as TVCs — who were knowingly underpaid by Google. The petition, sent to Google top executives Adrienne Crowther, Deepak Negi, Kent Walker, […]
Continue reading …Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Millions Fell Through the Unemployment Benefits Safety Net On Labor Day
By Kevin Vazquez | Sep 15, 2021 | — Last week, on Labor Day, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families lost federal unemployment benefits, and nearly three million more had their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week. The Biden administration, despite the entreaties of many workers, activists, labor unions, and other organizations, […]
Continue reading …Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for years
15/09/2021 Comments Off on Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for yearsGoogle Google workers demand back pay for temps company underpaid for years More than 140 workers sign petition decrying ‘massive moral failing’ following Guardian revelations Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco @juliacarriew Wed 15 Sep 2021 16.45 EDT Last modified on Wed 15 Sep 2021 18.05 EDT Google employees and subcontracted workers are demanding that […]
Continue reading …Stimulus Payments Lifted 11.7 Million People Out of Poverty During the Pandemic in 2020
14/09/2021 Comments Off on Stimulus Payments Lifted 11.7 Million People Out of Poverty During the Pandemic in 2020
The more than $400 billion in two rounds of stimulus payments the government distributed during the pandemic helped lift 11.7 million people out of poverty in 2020, according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) released today. The U.S. Census Bureau publishes SPM, an alternative to the official poverty measure that incorporates the value of noncash […]
Continue reading …10 Charts on the State of U.S. Workers on the 2nd Pandemic Labor Day
06/09/2021 Comments Off on 10 Charts on the State of U.S. Workers on the 2nd Pandemic Labor Day
As we mark the second Labor Day under the pandemic, Americans at the top of the income ladder are seeing their fortunes balloon as working families continue to struggle. Frontline workers are reeling from rising infection risks and tensions over mask and vaccine mandates. The unemployed, who are disproportionately workers of color, are facing the […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021
27/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021
The NLRB issued an opinion on Wednesday charging an aluminum manufacturing company with Section 7 violations after firing an employee who wrote “whore board” at the top of an overtime sign-up sheet. The employee was protesting the aluminum company’s unilateral imposition of new overtime procedures, under which employees needed to sign-up for overtime on a […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — August 26, 2021
26/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — August 26, 2021Representatives from the People’s Parity Project have argued that President Biden’s bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform is missing a key constituency: women and working people. They note that the vast majority of people testifying before the Commission have been professors teaching at elite law schools, and only a third have been women. A large […]
Continue reading …CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
16/08/2021 Comments Off on CEO Pay The Climate Stat We Can’t Afford to Overlook
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 […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — August 11, 2021
11/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — August 11, 2021After a weekend of sluggish procedural advances, which Fred described on Monday, the Senate finally, after months of grueling bipartisan negotiations, passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure package, called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 69-30. All 50 members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted for […]
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 — September 14, 2021
14/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — September 14, 2021Missouri public employees’ unions continue to struggle against the governor’s office for collective bargaining. In 2018, former Governor Eric Greitens signed a law that gave meager raises in exchange for changing the states’ merit hiring system, effectively reclassifying state workers into at-will employees. Since then, current Governor Mike Parson, who was Greitens’s lieutenant governor, has […]
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