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“The people who drive the nonprofit ecosystem are billion-dollar foundations,” Virden said. “And yet a lot of our co-workers are working two or three jobs, part-time jobs on weekends or after work at Hope.”
‘Say it with me: Union busting!!”
The Illinois attorney general announced that he reached a settlement with the company that calls for an independent monitor to protect the workers.
A dozen students from the Mankato area got the chance to sample nine different building trades at the first South Central Construction Trades Boot Camp held at Mankato West High School.
In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true.
The rush to keep building through the pandemic has compounded the risks for construction workers.
“There will be a reckoning on this,” Walz said.
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, August 13, is a day to call attention to the fact that Black women deserve equal pay but are still severely underpaid
“That is the gift of the local system, that it’s so much more resilient than the big industrial system,” said Margot McMillen, a small-scale organic vegetable and beef farmer in Missouri.
You know what should be canceled? The legal right of most bosses to fire you for a “good cause, bad cause, or no cause.”