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Nurse Shortage Becomes A Crisis, Pandemic Pressures Pushing Profession To Brink
07/09/2021 Comments Off on Nurse Shortage Becomes A Crisis, Pandemic Pressures Pushing Profession To Brink
The twin pressures of the nurse shortage and COVID-19 pandemic are pressing the nursing profession to the brink of collapse with calls for national emergency declaration, strikes and state committing big bucks to bring in more medical help. Last week (Sept. 1, 2021) he American Nurses Association called on the US Department of Health and […]
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 …5 Facts About Black Women In The Labor Force
06/08/2021 Comments Off on 5 Facts About Black Women In The Labor Force
By Mathilde Roux • August 3, 2021, US Dept. of Labor Blog — Black women are an integral part of the American labor force but have long faced a pay gap due to longstanding inequities in education and the labor market. In addition, they have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and are over-represented in […]
Continue reading …Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
27/07/2021 Comments Off on Texas Climate Jobs Program Combats Climate Change And Inequality
A new report from researchers at Cornell University’s ILR School Worker Institute set out a series of recommendations on how Texas can combat the twin crisis of climate change and economic inequality through a “climate jobs” initiative. The authors of the report say the recommendations can be tested at the city and county level then […]
Continue reading …These side jobs aren’t very complicated
24/07/2021 Comments Off on These side jobs aren’t very complicated
If what you’re looking for in a side job is ease, you’re in luck: There are several options. But don’t expect them to pay you like a professional. Generally speaking, easy side hustles pay between a few bucks and $25 an hour. The easier the hustle, the less it pays. The bright side of the […]
Continue reading …Union-Trained, Union-Made Miracle on the Hudson – Flight 1549
21/09/2016 Comments Off on Union-Trained, Union-Made Miracle on the Hudson – Flight 1549
Union-trained workers who saved the passengers on Flight 1549, from Captain Sully to the ferry crews. By Jim Hightower In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they insist, are no longer needed. They tell us that in today’s […]
Continue reading …Angry Workers Storm Air France Meeting On Job Cuts
05/10/2015 Comments Off on Angry Workers Storm Air France Meeting On Job Cuts
By LIZ ALDERMAN Two executives had to flee a meeting at Air France offices near Charles de Gaulle Airport, where plans were discussed to cut about 2,900 jobs. Source: The New York Times – The New American Job Newsfeed
Continue reading …GOP Hypocracy – Wisconsin, Unions and the 2016 Election
27/02/2015 Comments Off on GOP Hypocracy – Wisconsin, Unions and the 2016 Election
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD — Republicans’ support for anti-union legislation is at odds with their professed commitments to helping the middle class. The Republican-dominated Senate in Wisconsin passed a bill this week to weaken the state’s private-sector unions. Similar to “right-to-work” laws in 24 other states, the bill would prevent unions from requiring dues or other […]
Continue reading …How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
05/05/2014 Comments Off on How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
By Kara Brandeisky and Jeremy B. Merrill, ProPublica- Two years after the U.S. Department of Labor announced its intent to crack down on unpaid internships, a federal investigator called a final meeting with the biggest offender the agency had found: an outdoors magazine based in Santa Fe, N.M. The investigator reported interns at Outside magazine had […]
Continue reading …April Conference Board Employment Trends Index Up
05/05/2014 Comments Off on April Conference Board Employment Trends Index Up
Solid Job Growth is Likely to Continue The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) increased in April. The index now stands at 118.00, up from 117.77 (an upward revision) in March. This represents a 5.5 percent gain in the ETI compared to a year ago. “April’s increase in the Employment Trends Index, and continued improvement in […]
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