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Labor Day In The United States – A History
03/09/2012 Comments Off on Labor Day In The United States – A History
Labor Day History In June, 1894, Congress declared the first Monday in September as Labor Day and a legal holiday in all states, territories and the District of Columbia. Labor Day was created by the American labor movement following a bloody strike in Chicago. Labor Day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of […]
Continue reading …May Day: Labor’s International Holiday Was Made In Chicago
03/09/2012 Comments Off on May Day: Labor’s International Holiday Was Made In Chicago
The first day of May commemorates commemorates International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and observed unofficially in numerous other nations. The day is of special significance to international labor and left-wing movements, but the holiday has it roots in a violent massacre that […]
Continue reading …Workers Died Establishing Labor Day in the USA
03/09/2012 Comments Off on Workers Died Establishing Labor Day in the USA
What is now a day off in the United States was born directly out of the deaths of workers at the hands of their employers and the government. Labor Day in the United States was first observed on 5 Sept. 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York. Labor Day as a national holiday was […]
Continue reading …Atomic Workers Reject Union, Employer Misconduct Alleged
02/03/2012 Comments Off on Atomic Workers Reject Union, Employer Misconduct Alleged
On Wednesday, 29 February 2012, a two-thirds majority of technical workers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) near Albany, New York, rejected a unionization bid, amid allegations of employer misconduct. The vote was 87 in favor and 166 against out of 265 eligible voters, according to a statement from Local 147 of the International […]
Continue reading …Atomic Lab Workers In New York Seek Union
28/02/2012 Comments Off on Atomic Lab Workers In New York Seek UnionTechnical workers seeking to unionize at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) near Albany, New York, received a letter of support from three federal lawmakers who reminded management not to illegally interfere with the union vote. U.S. Senators Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Congressman Paul Tonko singed the letter of support, which was dated 27 February […]
Continue reading …Musicians In 3 Orchestras Can Have Union Vote, NRLB Rules
09/02/2012 Comments Off on Musicians In 3 Orchestras Can Have Union Vote, NRLB Rules
Symphony orchestra musicians in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas now have the option to play under a different set of rules. The NRLB has determined they are not independent contractors, but employees and are eligible to vote on whether they want union representation. In a 2-to-1 decision issued 27 December 2011, regarding the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, […]
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 …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 …N.B.A. Cancels 2 Weeks of Play in Labor Dispute
10/10/2011 Comments Off on N.B.A. Cancels 2 Weeks of Play in Labor Dispute
From the Associated Press via The New York Times: N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern on Monday, 10 Oct. 2011, announced the cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season after a lengthy negotiating session with locked-out players in New York failed to achieve a new collective bargaining agreement. Owners locked out the players 1 […]
Continue reading …Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
04/10/2011 Comments Off on Ford Reaches Tentative Contract with UAW
Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract covering approximately 41,000 UAW-represented employees in the United States. The agreement comes a month after the UAW successfully negotiated a new contract with General Motors. The UAW reached a tentative agreement with GM on Sept. […]
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