Labor
Overcoming company hurdles, 6,000 Amazon workers start union recognition vote
February 16, 2021If workers here go union, it will mark a double breakthrough for organized labor in two notoriously hostile environments: Amazon and Alabama.
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House panel probes meatpackers’ refusal to protect workers from virus
February 10, 2021Action shows the seriousness with which the new administration is treating worker safety.
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Get a shovel: Biden to roll back Trump ‘midnight rules’
January 12, 2021Democratic President Joe Biden promises to immediately undo the most recent—and some of the most egregious—damage perpetrated by his right-wing GOP predecessor, Donald Trump.
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Biden economic recovery plan emphasizes labor law reform
November 10, 2020AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka ranks it second only to the Heroes Act.
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Before election, Trump made it easier to misclassify workers as ‘independent contractors’
November 5, 202024 AGs, New York, Chicago, Philly, Pittsburgh try to stop Trump's expansion of “independent contractor” dodge.
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