workers rights
Under pressure, feds reverse decision to close coronavirus testing sites
April 10, 2020Under pressure from Pennsylvania lawmakers and a report on National Public Radio, the GOP Trump government’s Health and Human Services Department abruptly reversed a ruling to cut off dollars to some 41 community coronavirus testing sites...
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Labor law group: Trump DOL ‘joint employer’ rule a giveaway to business
January 16, 2020"By letting big business off the hook for wage theft, Trump’s DOL lays the groundwork for more sweatshops."
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Trump’s NLRB twists knife into heart of workers and their unions
November 18, 2019Things will not get better any time soon. The new rule seems to be “anything goes” for employers.
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Trumka: Workers “not interested in a sliver of change”
August 30, 2019"The rich continue to hoard unprecedented money and power, while the people who build that wealth are working harder and longer, for less money, with less dignity."
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NLRB regional director to press charges against Boeing in S.C.
August 26, 2019The illegal retaliation grows out of IAMAW’s recent success in organizing the 176 flight line inspectors and technicians at the plant. They voted 104-65 in May 2018 to join the Machinists.
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