Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/uncategorized/page/2/)
Thousands of the subcontracted workers who prepare and deliver in-flight meals are voting to go on strike, demanding better pay and healthcare from the multi-billion dollar airline industry.
A proposed wage theft ordinance under consideration in Minneapolis passed unanimously through a city council committee July 29 and is headed for a vote by the full city council Thursday, August 8.
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,