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By The Numbers: Life And Death Working At Foxconn
31/01/2012 Comments Off on By The Numbers: Life And Death Working At Foxconn
From ProPublica: An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer electronics. As well as working with companies like Dell, Motorola, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn assembles popular […]
Continue reading …U.S. Union Membership Grows Slightly In 2011
30/01/2012 Comments Off on U.S. Union Membership Grows Slightly In 2011
Union membership in the United States grew slightly in 2011 up by about 49,000 members, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The percent of unionized wage and salary workers was 11.8%, 14.8 million workers in 2011, down slightly compared with 11.9% in 2010, according to the BLS report […]
Continue reading …Quick Guide to EEOC Website Links for Employees & Job Applicants
19/11/2011 Comments Off on Quick Guide to EEOC Website Links for Employees & Job Applicants
A quick guide to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – EEOC – website links of for employees and job applicants Overview Coverage Timeliness Filing A ChargeHow to File Charge Handling Confidentiality Mediation Remedies Existing Charges Filing a Lawsuit Discrimination by TypeAge Disability Equal Compensation Genetic Information National Origin Pregnancy Race/Color Religion Retaliation Sex Sexual Harassment […]
Continue reading …The NBA Lockout As Explained By An Economics Professor
15/11/2011 Comments Off on The NBA Lockout As Explained By An Economics Professor
Labor negotiations for professional sports have become a form of entertainment all to themselves. So it is with the NBA lockout. The complete meltdown of the negotiation between a union that represents a group of very wealthy, very specialized workers – professional basketball players – and the owners of their businesses they work for – […]
Continue reading …Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
Infographic: The High Cost Dropping Out of College
Continue reading …Wages Down, Consumers Spend Less, Growth Slows
03/10/2011 Comments Off on Wages Down, Consumers Spend Less, Growth Slows
From Bloomberg News: Take-home pay and wages, adjusted for prices, fell 0.3 percent in August, the third decrease in five months, and personal income dropped for the first time in two years, the Commerce Department reported last week. The declines followed news from the Census Bureau that median household income in 2010 fell to $49,445, the lowest […]
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