Roberta Wood

LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood

• Labor

  

  Trump housekeepers demand respect too

  October 19, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Hundreds of housekeepers, servers and cooks from the Trump Hotel here feel the sting of Trump’s disrespect every day.

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• Opinion

  

  Trump’s taxes vs. My taxes

  October 17, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Our country is actually quite well managed; but it is managed exclusively for the benefit of the wealthy.

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• Labor

  

  The Break Room: Million workers get paid sick leave

  October 4, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Rule 13706 is the latest initiative by the Obama administration to expand worker benefits and protections.

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• Labor

  

  The Break Room: Who owns your time?

  September 26, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Having a work schedule you can depend on has joined raising the minimum wage as a winnable demand for America's millions of low-paid workers.

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• Labor

  

  September 19 Labor Update

  September 19, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Incarcerated workers are still workers; VA healthcare under the gun; CWA solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux; 13 million call Congress to stop TPP; a cup of union tea.

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• Environment

  

  Federal government calls a halt to North Dakota Pipeline

  September 9, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  In a victory the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is calling "a game changer," three Federal agencies blocked the construction of a pipeline at Lake Oahe. N.D.

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• Labor

  

  Sept. 9 Labor update

  September 9, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Trump trumped by NLRB, Minnesota nurses strike; Sorry, no thin mints at Schnuck's;  union 'lions and tigers and bears' and more.

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• Labor

  

  This week in labor

  September 2, 2016 By Roberta Wood

  Workers take pulpit, housekeepers challenge Trump, global solidarity and more.

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