Labor
UPDATE GAO: Labor Department failed miserably in enforcing wage laws
March 27, 2009Original source:UPDATE: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the department’s Wage and Hour Division will add 250 new investigators, a staff increase of more than a third. The agency already has begun the process of adding 150...
Read moreLabor to Big Biz: You wont derail employee free choice!
March 26, 2009The labor movement remains undaunted in its push for the Employee Free Choice Act despite the defection of Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter, the only Republican member of the Senate who had supported the measure. Specter announced March...
Read moreIn tiny RI, jewelry workers fight mighty battle
March 26, 2009EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Jobs with Justice has launched a national campaign for justice for 280 workers here who found their workplace padlocked with no warning two months ago.
Read moreFight for Employee Free Choice continues despite Specters flip
March 25, 2009Even though he was a sponsor of the original Employee Free Choice Act in 2003, supported the bill again in 2005 and voted against a Republican filibuster of it in 2007, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced...
Read moreAuto task force should worry about workers shrinking wallets
March 25, 2009DETROIT — As U.S. auto companies work to meet the government’s March 31 deadline for showing progress in their restructuring and turnaround plans, the pressure on workers and their union to accept concessions has been intense....
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