Labor News

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-domesworkers530.jpg

Domestic workers see gains, yet struggle for decent work

"I do housework, cooking, gardening, take care of the children," said domestic worker Amma, who is forced to sleep in a garage; "I receive insults like, 'You are an animal.'"

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-044a78aa-ab1a-4331-8a93-f15483f43e4e.jpg

Union leaders express outrage at Orlando massacre, sympathy for victims and families

"I don't know where to begin. Fifty dead, many more wounded, in the worst mass shooting in American history. I am sick and heartbroken."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-29284453-4b02-4752-b4c9-2639025e32fc.jpg

GOP House Speaker Ryan plan would trash labor, consumer regulations

Ryan's 57-page document is part of a Republican agenda he's putting forward as a platform before the GOP National Convention.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-workersafety525.jpg

Consumers League warns teens about summer jobs that can kill

"Always follow safety training. Working safely and carefully may slow you down, but ignoring safe work procedures is a fast track to injury."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-norcross526x300.jpg

Active unionists go one for two in June 5 primaries

One of them, who won in New Jersey, said he would continue to push for more jobs and safer neighborhoods. 

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-trally520.jpg

Cleveland teachers battle excessive testing mandates

"They don't want to face up to the real problem of poverty and generations of structural inequality."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-b2864b8e-9053-47a9-8d6a-5f66986129f0.jpg

Coalition forms to combat wage theft in Minnesota

The new wage theft coalition will focus on identifying and implementing solutions.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-47b60929-4c2c-423c-86a3-94a22a948f66.jpg

Wage theft, labor law-breaking force L.A. port truckers into another strike

Can you imagine working five weeks in a row and earning nothing?

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-diversity520.jpg

Teachers report: 2016 presidential campaign scares kids

The Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed over 2,000 teachers, who say kids are experiencing fear and stress over the Right's agenda.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-imonstrikeondabyicelion87.jpg

Labor board puts new limits on when employers may permanently replace strikers

Employers must now prove to the NLRB that they aren't replacing striking workers for illegal reasons.

15 6 7 8 923