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12 Aug 2013, 3:39 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com AMERICAN companies are more profitable than ever — and more profitable than we thought they were before the government revised the national income accounts last week. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 3:19 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care. [read post]
4 May 2014, 6:16 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from money.cnn.com McDonald's gets a lot of bad press for its low pay. [read post]
30 May 2014, 3:37 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.latimes.com The state Senate on Thursday approved a measure that would gradually raise the minimum wage in California from the current $8 an hour to $13 in 2017, despite warnings from the California Chamber of Commerce that the bill is a “job killer. [read post]
17 Aug 2014, 1:34 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Starbucks announced revisions on Thursday to the way the company schedules its 130,000 baristas, saying it wanted to improve “stability and consistency” in work hours week to week.The company intends to curb the much-loathed practice of “clopening,” or workers closing the store late at night and returning just a few hours later to reopen, wrote Cliff Burrows, the group president… [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 10:38 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Two big groups of retailers and apparel brands have completed a major step toward advancing garment-factory safety in Bangladesh: They have finished inspecting nearly 1,700 factories in that country.A European-dominated group — the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, with 189 corporate members, including H&M and Carrefour — said on Tuesday that it had found more than 80,000… [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 2:51 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com McALLEN, Tex. [read post]
24 Aug 2014, 12:43 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com Elsa has an important monetary policy to impart to Fed Chair Janet Yellen. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 6:04 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.comASPEN, Colo.One of the challenges that advocates are discussing here at an anti-poverty conference in Aspen — yes, I realize the irony — is getting buy-in from the private sector. [read post]
29 May 2014, 1:33 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.motherjones.com Forget Wisconsin Gov. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 3:46 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.theatlantic.com Objectors to the NLRB's ruling that student-athletes can unionize are glossing over the fact that student-athletes meet all the criteria to be considered employees of their schools. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 12:11 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from online.wsj.com The Affordable Care Act's greatest hits keep coming, and one that hasn't received enough attention is a looming favor for President Obama's friends in Big Labor. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 3:46 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.jacksonsun.com Tweet Players from other universities have expressed interest in forming unions in the wake of the landmark decision last week involving the Northwestern football team, a union organizer said Friday.Tim Waters of the United Steelworkers would not disclose the players or their schools, saying it was too early to reveal who they are. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 8:23 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.chicagotribune.com City Council passes minimum wage increaseThe City Council on Tuesday approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to boost Chicago’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by mid-2019, while efforts in Springfield to hike the state’s rate and apply some brakes to further city increases fizzled at least until January.In an overwhelming 44-5 vote steeped in aldermanic and mayoral re-election… [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 3:38 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.ibtimes.com Over the next few months, the Supreme Court will hear two major cases that could prove a major setback to unions' ability to organize and collect dues -- and the conservative majority on the court is making pro-labor advocates nervous. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 2:49 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com As more workers find their lives upended and their paychecks reduced by ever-changing, on-call schedules, government officials are trying to put limits on the harshest of those scheduling practices.The actions reflect a growing national movement — fueled by women’s and labor groups — to curb practices that affect millions of families, like assigning just one or two days of work a week… [read post]
25 Oct 2014, 5:09 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of former interns at NBCUniversal, including on the late-night TV show "Saturday Night Live," have reached a $6.4 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit claiming they should have been paid for their work.The settlement resolves claims that NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast Corp, violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state laws in New York,… [read post]
22 Nov 2014, 5:42 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.pewresearch.org As Fact Tank noted earlier this month, about 20.6 million people — 30% of all hourly, non-self-employed workers 18 and older — are what we call “near-minimum-wage workers,” meaning they earn more than the current minimum wage (either the federal $7.25-an-hour minimum or a higher state minimum) but less than the $10.10 hourly rate that emerged over the past year as a… [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 4:56 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.kirotv.com Supporters of SeaTac Prop 1 celebrate at rallySEATAC, Wash. [read post]
18 Oct 2014, 11:41 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.businessweek.com Companies & IndustriesFedEx Ground Says Its Drivers Aren't Employees. [read post]
