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12 Aug 2014, 5:19 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Swift Transportation’s 20,000 workers haul goods in almost 14,000 big-rig trucks that travel the interstates and back roads of the United States every day. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 5:03 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. [read post]
3 May 2014, 3:20 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.newyorker.com WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - A broad-based coalition of millionaires converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour.Leaving behind their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for the millionaires, said. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 8:22 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.businessweek.com AP NewsMADISON, Wis. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 1:22 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.miamiherald.com Workers who fill customer orders for Internet retailer Amazon might be out of luck in their quest to be paid for time they spend going through security checkpoints each day.Several Supreme Court justices expressed doubts Wednesday during arguments over whether federal law entitles workers to compensation for security measures to prevent employee theft.The case is being watched closely by business… [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 3:44 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Business has been brisk at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, with a record number of passengers spending record amounts of money eating and shopping. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 1:59 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.reuters.com CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning protests at 1,600 Walmart stores nationwide on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States.The labor group, Our Walmart, said it had protested 1,200 to 1,400 Walmart stores last year on Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving holiday.Wal-Mart Stores Inc, owner of… [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 6:14 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.newsweek.com Plaintiff Kyle Grant, pictured in Manhattan on June 25, 2014.Kyle Grant was still living in a Bronx homeless shelter when he started interning at Warner Music Group (WMG) in August 2012. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 6:18 pm
In California, a municipality is moving even closer to bankruptcy the cost of those issues.Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 11:19 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The political posturing over raising the minimum wage sometimes obscures the huge and growing number of low-wage workers it would affect. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 2:47 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com How many Americans know how health reform is going? [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 4:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from online.wsj.com Robots aren't just for the big guys anymore.A new breed of so-called collaborative machines—designed to work alongside people in close settings—is changing the way some of America's smaller manufacturers do their jobs.The machines, priced as low as $20,000, provide such companies—small jewelry makers and toy makers among them—with new incentives to automate to increase… [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 5:48 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.salon.com Breaking: Wal-Mart workers on strike, defying firings Dozens of workers at a Florida Wal-Mart walked off the job this morning, mounting the first Wal-Mart store work stoppage since the firings of 20 workers who participated in an extended June strike. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 4:39 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — President Obama, trying to quell a growing furor over the rollout of his health care law, bowed to bipartisan pressure on Thursday and announced a policy reversal that would allow insurance companies to temporarily keep people on health plans that were to be canceled under the new law because they did not meet minimum standards. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 2:39 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.latimes.com Union protestHaltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American labor movement is morphing into something new. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 4:21 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from ktla.com Four workers had minor injuries Wednesday after a large explosion at an ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that left ash cascading to the ground and South Bay residents briefly wondering if an earthquake had hit.The Torrance Fire Department responded to an explosion at the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery on Feb. 18, 2015. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 8:10 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com With the crisis chatter in Washington now turning to speculation about the coming budget talks and the possibility of a “grand bargain” to replace the sequester, liberals and unions are getting increasingly nervous that Congressional Dems will give up entitlement benefits cuts in exchange for, well, whatever is on offer from Republicans, which isn’t at all clear.In an… [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 4:04 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he governs.Without waiting for results from elections on Tuesday that few in the White House expect to go well for Mr. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 4:15 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com No one should ever endure the kind of economic humiliation that comes with working a full-time job and making a less-than-living wage.There is dignity in all work, but that dignity grows dim when the checks are cashed and the coins are counted and still the bills rise higher than the wages.Most people want to work. [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 12:42 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from thehill.com The U.S. [read post]
