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“Reuter Walton, they claim they don’t know what’s going on, but what does that really tell you?” Duran said. “That’s why the City of Roseville needs to keep an eye on who this developer hires.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced its final overtime rule, which will set the salary threshold under which salaried workers are automatically entitled to overtime pay to $35,568 a year. The rule leaves behind millions of workers who would have received overtime protections under the much stronger rule, published in 2016, that Trump administration chose to abandon.
Hundreds of Minnesotans came to the Bloomington Airport Marriott hotel Monday evening to support the proposed plan of increasing the minimum wage at the MSP Airport to $15 per hour
The labor-relations board’s attempt to kill an Obama rule protecting third-party employees fizzled once because of a conflict of interest. Now, two representatives charge, there’s a new conflict and it involves the agency’s own use of temps.
Right now, gig workers are still considered contractors under federal employment rules. So, in order to have the right to form a union, the California State Legislature would need to pass a bill next year giving the workers explicit permission to do so.
We were just handed a wake-up call. Newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year.
Looking at case studies of Wisconsin’s AFSME, AFT-Wisconsin, SEIU, and WEAC public sector unions, authors David Knack, Michaerl Childers, Alexia Kuwiec, and Armando Ibarra show the various ways public sector workers are navigating the political terrain of anti-union, anti-labor legislation.
Following two years of advocacy and organizing Minneapolis erotic dancers claimed a victory. Last Friday, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that will improve working conditions for adult entertainers.
Bernie Sanders released his Workplace Democracy Plan on Wednesday. His campaign’s labor platform makes the strongest case of any of the candidates so far that he would be unions’ best ally in the White House in generations.
North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and other unions assert that union-funded Registered Apprenticeship Programs and the workers who benefit from them are directly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.