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How low wages, brutal working conditions, and laws hostile to organizing, make Atlanta and surrounding areas ripe for labor trafficking. Relative to Minneapolis, working conditions in Atlanta appear generally worse. Minnesota at least has state departments mandated with enforcing wage and workplace safety laws; Georgia does not.
These types of fear-based statements are designed to distract us from the attacks on our union freedoms and the continued hoarding of wealth at the top.
The Trump administration has proposed a change in rules governing union membership for federal government workers that could embolden federal agencies to discourage staff from joining or remaining in their union.
If the US economy is supposedly in a steady recovery state, why are people struggling so much with job security, happiness, and liveability?
Working people have suffered from and will continue to bear the burden of the failures of these bad trade deals.
“The impact of heat stress on labor productivity is a serious consequence of climate change, which adds to other adverse impacts such as changing rain patterns, raising sea levels and loss of biodiversity,” said ILO’s Catherine Saget.
Not satisfied to build properties in the Midwest, Elsey is attempting to take advantage of the lack of communication among regulatory jurisdictions and is taking their show to the West Coast.
Three months after the largest manufacturing strike of the Trump presidency so far, locomotive plant workers in Erie, Pennsylvania,
But the revitalization of sympathy strikes and mass labor organizing all across the country in recent years suggests that the legacy of the Great Pullman Strike remains very much alive today.
Passed in May 2019 the wage theft law amends existing state labor laws and adds new wage and hour requirements, protections and sanctions.