“‘A lot of working people voted for change in this election,’ argued Bill Finn, the director of the Kentucky State Building and Construction Trades Council,” writes John Nichols in The Nation. “‘They didn’t vote for this. They didn’t vote for a pay cut.’ […]
“No worker should have to fear retaliation from their employer for calling 911 in an emergency, or taking other action to report a workplace safety or health incident,” said OSHA Administrator Richard Mendelson. […]
Theresa Tova is the new president of ACTRA Toronto, head of the Canadian actors union’s biggest chapter. Tova, who succeeds David Sparrow after a stint as ACTRA’s national treasurer, is best known as Marge on the Canadian TV drama E.N.G. […]
“The strike is expected to have significant impact on critical services, and will affect students returning from winter break, as well as the public,” the union said. It urged people to reschedule nonessential medical appointments and avoid the campus […]
“Put simply, a complete repeal with no fixed alternative is grossly irresponsible,” writes Jennifer Rubin in The Washington Post. “It’s a rush to show the base, which was once again promised an easy solution (repeal Obamacare!) that Republicans can ‘deliver.’ […]
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 235,000 for the week ended December 31, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was close to the 233,000 touched in mid-November, which was the lowest level since November 1973. […]
“Both measures were decried by environmentalists, consumer rights and public health advocates, and labor groups, who say they hand power over to corporations at the American public’s expense,” writes Dierdre Fulton in Common Dreams. […]
“In the days following Donald Trump’s stunning (to the mainstream media, at least) election as the nation’s 45th president, published news accounts documented the weakness of the Clinton campaign’s ground game not only in hotly […]
“With the incoming Trump administration set to take office in a few weeks, a leading Obama administration official is now warning that the Department of Labor will be ‘at peril‘ if it fails to enforce new rules that saw $1.8 billion in back wages paid […]
“This privatization effort undermined the public’s right to good quality and secure postal services and represented a shift of good living-wage positions to low-wage jobs, thereby hurting the well-being of the communities where the union’s members […]
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