worker rights – Page 232

Shop Talk: saving jobs, preventing disasters and more

January 22, 2011 By John Wojcik

Not paid at all for three pay periods, 3,750 jobs saved at Kansas City plant, Union credited with saving 700 jobs in Indiana, He wants working families to pay, Coal mine disaster 'preventable'

Health reform begins to affect union members covered on the job

January 21, 2011 By Don McIntosh

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, by Democratic President Barack Obama, is starting to affect health insurance plans that union members and their families are...

Workers celebrate victory over Starbucks

January 20, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Members of the Starbucks Workers Union held demonstrations at branches of the coffee shop giant across Manhattan on Jan. 17, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as they've done for years. This year, the union had something...

Ergonomics not on the list of five new safety rules

January 12, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will roll out five new rules this year designed to protect workers on the job - but a rule to curb ergonomic injuries will not be one of them.

“Show-Me Solutions” are no solution, Missouri lawmaker says

January 7, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

Missouri's new Republican House leader declared a Republican mandate for a "change in the culture of how we operate," but a freshman lawmaker thinks otherwise.