Labor
United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’
September 14, 2020WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...
Read moreMcConnell writes off the almost 1.7M more jobless workers forced to seek benefits
September 11, 2020GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocks any meaningful aid to a nation suffering under the pandemic.
Read moreFlight Attendants warn layoffs could end any hope of economic recovery
September 10, 2020Massive layoffs the airlines plan at the end of this month could also result in more pandemic deaths, they say.
Read moreBiden to workers: ‘Wall Street didn’t build this country. You did.’
September 8, 2020Also on Labor Day, Democratic V.P. candidate Kamala Harris meets with Wisconsin workers and family of Jacob Blake.
Read moreHarvard law experts: Coronavirus presents dangers, opportunities for new worker power
September 8, 2020While traditional labor organizing is extremely difficult, inclusion of more-essential-than-ever workers can help grow the labor movement.
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