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Amazon Subsidy Tracker: How Taxpayer Subsidies Help Build its Monopoly
Amazon.com, Inc. is growing rapidly, thanks in no small part to its aggressive strategy for getting tax breaks. Indeed, it has been getting about 20 economic development subsidy packages a year since 2012 for its warehouses and data centers—over $4 billion and counting as of May 2021. Good Jobs First has published extensively on Amazon (as we […]
Amazon settles with tech workers fired for Corona virus, climate criticism
30/09/2021 Comments Off on Amazon settles with tech workers fired for Corona virus, climate criticism
SEATTLE — Amazon settled a long-running dispute with two former tech workers it fired after they criticized the company for its climate policies and warehouse safety record, avoiding a hearing that would have put a spotlight on strained relations with some employees. The e-commerce giant was set to face Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa in […]
Continue reading …Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical Records
29/09/2021 Comments Off on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical RecordsBy Isaac Arnsdor, ProPublica — Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators. As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and […]
Continue reading …New York to Pass Sweeping Laws to Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers
23/09/2021 Comments Off on New York to Pass Sweeping Laws to Improve Conditions for Delivery WorkersNew York to Pass Sweeping Laws to Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers A package of legislation from the City Council will set minimum pay and working conditions, placing New York at the forefront of regulating a multibillion-dollar industry. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/nyregion/nyc-food-delivery-workers.html
Continue reading …Staffing hours worked rise 25% year over year despite dip over week: SIA
17/09/2021 Comments Off on Staffing hours worked rise 25% year over year despite dip over week: SIA
Staffing hours worked during the week ended Sept. 11 rose 25% year over year, but fell 1% compared to the previous week, according to the latest SIA | Bullhorn Staffing Indicator, released today by Staffing Industry Analysts. Professional staffing hours worked were down week over week, probably due to Labor Day holiday. Week ending Sept. […]
Continue reading …Cal/OSHA Encourages Following New Guidance On Face Masks Indoors
17/09/2021 Comments Off on Cal/OSHA Encourages Following New Guidance On Face Masks Indoors
Aug. 25, 2021 — In addition to the requirements of the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) and as a best practice, CalOSHA encourages employers and workers to follow the recent update from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recommending that all individuals wear face coverings while indoors regardless of vaccination status. CDPH recently […]
Continue reading …Week ended Sept. 11 jobless claims rise as Covid wave hits
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Week ended Sept. 11 jobless claims rise as Covid wave hits
September 16, 2021 — Week ended Sept. 11 jobless claims rose 20,000 to a total of 332,000, following a pandemic low in the prior week, a sign that rising Covid-19 infections are harming economy, the US Department of Labor reports. Applications for unemployment benefits had been steadily decreasing as a number of states cut jobless […]
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 …First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
15/09/2021 Comments Off on First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has filed a remote work ADA discrimination lawsuit in what has been called a first-of-its-kind case that could decide businesses’ obligation to allow employees to work from home as a disability accommodation. ISS Facility Services, Inc., a Denmark-based workplace experience and facility management company with U.S. headquarters in […]
Continue reading …Google illegally underpaid thousands of temps in at least 16 nations
13/09/2021 Comments Off on Google illegally underpaid thousands of temps in at least 16 nations
Google illegally underpaid thousands of temp workers in at least 16 countries, attempted to cover up the problem and delayed fixing the problem for more than two years, according to reports in the The Guardian and The New York Times. Despite the fact much of Google’s violations of labor laws took place in the UK, […]
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