Elections
COVID Crisis Prompts Changes for MN Primary
|
Because of the health crisis, voters now have until Thursday, Aug. 13, to ensure their ballots been delivered by mail.
Investigative
How the Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Keep Relief Money That Was Supposed to Go to Workers
|
One of the most generous programs of the bailout was meant to help airline industry companies keep their workers on the payroll. Some laid workers off first and then got the money anyway.
Government
In a New Report MIT School of Management Professor Recommends Sweeping Changes to Labor Law
|
Study recommends creating mechanisms to strengthen worker voice and representation
Elections
As the District 5 Congressional Race Heats Up Unions Stand with Rep. Omar
|
The speakers emphasized Rep. Omar’s history of advocating for working families and unions, and her opponent’s time representing employers as a non-equity partner at the notorious union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis.
Government
A Broken Union Election System
|
Today, EPI released a new report providing an inside account of how employers routinely threaten, intimidate, and harass workers to stop them from exercising their right to collective bargaining.
Government
As GOP plays politics with infrastructure bill, tradespeople warn their jobs hang in balance
|
“My brothers and sisters and their families hope lawmakers come back to the table, sit down, roll their sleeves up and do whatever is required to get this bonding bill passed … so we don’t have to tell our families we lost our jobs.”
COVID-19
Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban
|
Doctors treating coronavirus patients were supposed to be allowed into the U.S. But hundreds of young doctors have their visas put on hold indefinitely.
Government
Flight Attendants Tell Airlines: Don’t Even Think About Concessions
|
The COVID-19 crisis hit airline workers with speed and devastation. Passenger flow through TSA checkpoints fell 97 percent in March compared to a year earlier. In the months since, travel demand has only barely recovered, to 20 percent of a year ago.
#GeorgeFloyd
Posthumous Pardon Considered in MN Case that Fueled Racial Tension
|
The state Board of Pardons, which includes Gov. Tim Walz, could vote as early as today on a posthumous pardon for Max Mason, a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Duluth in 1920.
Workers
Top Mexican labour lawyer arrested after activism in US-owned factories
|
Susana Prieto Terrazas filmed her own arrest in the border city of Matamoros where she has advised maquiladora factory workers