Labor
Federal data: One of five workers claiming jobless benefits
September 17, 2020The total number and percentage of unemployed, of course, is much higher.
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Workers win as NY federal judge tosses Trump ‘joint employer’ rule
September 16, 2020Ruling represents yet another loss for Trump in the courts.
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Fire Fighters demand Trump release funds for 9/11 victims’ care
September 15, 2020Democratic New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler calls upon the administration to “stop betraying our nation’s heroes. Shame on them.”
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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...
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McConnell 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.
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