Labor
Head honchos at low-pay firms raised CEO pay in pandemic
June 8, 2022They gave their top officials huge raises as they battled efforts by their workers to unionize and win living wages.
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Unions back Poor People’s Campaign, renew demand for Biden meeting
June 7, 2022“We no longer will accept a system built on workers’ backs while billionaires profit from the pandemic,” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry warned.
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Firms claim to create 333K new jobs in May as jobless rate stays at 3.6 percent
June 6, 2022The “bounce back remains very strong, strikingly stronger—four years faster than the recovery from the Great Recession."
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Strippers on strike in North Hollywood after mounting safety threats
June 6, 2022What started as a safety problem quickly escalated into a strike and employer lockout.
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New grass-roots union forms to organize Amazon warehouse in N.C.
June 3, 2022Amazon workers in North Carolina have created yet another independent union to organize at the warehouse giant.
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