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.
‘Vigil to End Human Detention’ Held Across the Country
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The vigils mourned the refugees and immigrants who have died in ICE detention and protested the dehumanizing conditions of these camps.
As Job Numbers Indicate a Rebound, What Gets Overlooked?
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If the US economy is supposedly in a steady recovery state, why are people struggling so much with job security, happiness, and liveability?
Op-Ed: MEET THE NEW NAFTA — SAME AS THE OLD NAFTA — BAD FOR WORKERS
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Working people have suffered from and will continue to bear the burden of the failures of these bad trade deals.
Rising heat stress could cost 80 million jobs by 2030 – U.N.
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“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.
Infamous Midwest Developer, Elsey Partners, is moving to the West Coast
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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.
Erie Locomotive Workers Avert Strike with New Contract at Wabtec
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Three months after the largest manufacturing strike of the Trump presidency so far, locomotive plant workers in Erie, Pennsylvania,
125 Years After the Pullman Uprising, We Could Be on the Verge of Another Sympathy Strike Wave
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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.
Minnesota Enacts Wage Theft Law
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Passed in May 2019 the wage theft law amends existing state labor laws and adds new wage and hour requirements, protections and sanctions.
Workers Allege Discrimination at the Airport
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At the start of June with less than a week notice a new contractor, Innovative Handling Solutions, replaced East African workers with majority white workers
The MAC Commission gets Heated
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A bitter fight between Delta and IAM over the unionization of ground workers and flight attendants landed at Monday’s MAC meeting.