Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/government/page/2/)
Responding to disproportionately high rates of injury at Amazon warehouses here, Minnesota lawmakers last week introduced legislation that would put the facilities under new scrutiny.
After missing their September 6 deadline for recommendations, the working group could not agree on a single proposal for the legislature.
APWU members picketed outside main downtown Minneapolis Post Office during visit by Postmaster General and USPS Board of Governors
DFL members of the working group and frontline workers call for all frontline workers in Minnesota to be respected and acknowledged with the bonus pay proposal, even though it will be smaller payments.
The Minnesota State Legislature committed to $250 million in May for “hero pay” for frontline workers across the state. A working group has yet to develop a plan for distributing that money.
The Labor Department has launched an overhaul of the technology that runs the unemployment insurance system, which was overwhelmed by claims and plagued by fraud during the pandemic. But the agency says Congress must act to fix deeper problems.
For many key issues, however, partisan gridlock blocks progress.
Many people depend on care from home health care workers. President Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes a measure for investing in caregiving.
After a year of pandemic-induced economic and emotional hardship, workers are pushing the government for more relief.
If the bill is passed, it is poised to potentially bring millions yearly into the state’s economy from producers that would begin using the incentive to produce the backlog of on hold productions.
