Labor
AFL-CIO to Feds: ‘New NAFTA’ enforcement unknown
November 27, 2018The AFL-CIO has serious doubts the improved rules will make a meaningful difference to North American working families.
Read moreTV chain Nexstar splits workers with different raise offers, shifts cash to shareholders
November 20, 2018As for what it wants to do with its millions, besides not paying workers, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook says the plan is to “apply our growing free cash flow to drive shareholder returns."
Read moreNon union Twin Cities contractor charged with human trafficking
November 19, 2018In fiscal year 2017, which ended Sept. 30, 2017, the federal Homeland Security Department “opened 833 investigations possibly involving human trafficking.
Read more$1.45 a day: Prisoners fighting California fires deserve real wages
November 16, 2018Employers are naturally attracted by the prospect of a uniquely docile, powerless, and literally captive labor force.
Read more“The U.S. Mail is not for sale,” postal workers say
November 16, 2018Letter Carriers and the Postal Workers launched a big ad and social media campaign against a GOP Trump administration plan to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.
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