Labor
Shady contractors jailed in Bay area and on Long Island
June 20, 2019Wage theft and outright enslavement of immigrant workers were uncovered by the DOL at the Silvery Towers construction site in San Jose, Calif.
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Steelworkers organizer comes up with great anti-New NAFTA line
June 20, 2019“If ya can’t enforce it, why are ya gonna pass it?” she asks
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Democratic money bill halts Trump rollback of OSHA beryllium rule
June 19, 2019The bill, with spending for the Departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Defense and other agencies, is what’s called “a minibus,” where six individual spending bills were combined.
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Autoworkers narrowly lose again at Chattanooga Volkswagen plant
June 18, 2019Over a period of nine weeks, Volkswagen was able to break the will of enough workers to destroy their majority.
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Congress has never let the minimum wage erode for this long
June 17, 2019A simple way to fix this problem once and for all would be to adopt automatic annual minimum wage adjustment.
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