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13 Dec 2014, 12:36 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com Bill Clinton changed the Democratic Party, and Elizabeth Warren is trying to change it back — at least when it comes to Wall Street.The latest intra-party skirmish has come over the so-called "CRomnibus" (don't ask) spending bill that would have funded the government for the next year, as well as, among other pet projects, killed Dodd-Frank's prohibition on big banks… [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 4:41 am
Whether it be the PA court system or insurance exchanges, that need to work the first time around.Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com For now, the big news about Obamacare is the debacle of HealthCare.gov, the Web portal through which Americans are supposed to buy insurance on the new health care exchanges. [read post]
21 Sep 2014, 3:40 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.latimes.com In this hyper-polarized world, it's rare to find liberals and conservatives agreeing on anything -- and especially surprising to find them agreeing that hotel housekeepers deserve a raise.But that's the response to news of a misguided publicity campaign in which California's former first lady, Maria Shriver, has joined with the huge hotel chain Marriott International to urge hotel guests… [read post]
25 Oct 2014, 5:08 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nj.com In this Sept. 14, 2014 file photo, protesters participate in a rally outside a McDonaldis on Chicago's south side as labor organizers escalate their campaign raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 5:32 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.publicintegrity.org Membership in labor unions fell last year to its lowest level in nearly a century, but Big Labor remains a major player in national politics.Labor Day this year is celebrated on the heels of a massive strike by fast-food restaurants workers and a renewed discussion about the merits of raising the minimum wage in the United States. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 12:55 pm
Elimination of tips, would eliminated added coverage benefits paid under workers' compensation programs.Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com When The Times’s restaurant critic, Pete Wells, recently called tipping “irrational, outdated, ineffective, confusing, prone to abuse and sometimes discriminatory,” he was referring mainly to mid- to high-priced restaurants that are considering an end to the practice in favor of… [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 4:46 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Seeking to increase pressure on McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants, organizers of a movement demanding a $15-an-hour wage for fast-food workers say they will sponsor one-day strikes in 100 cities on Thursday and protest activities in 100 additional cities. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 4:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The Census Bureau released new data Tuesday on the pay gap between men and women, showing a statistically insignificant increase. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 3:51 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.cjr.orgThe Los Angeles Times drops into the debate over whether or how much prices would have to rise at fast-food restaurants for their employees to get $15 an hour.Actually, this is the first time I’ve seen the question of whether prices would rise treated seriously. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 5:58 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.comWhen it comes to stagnant wage trends, I yield to no one (except maybe the Economic Policy Institute’s Larry Mishel) in my efforts to elevate the issue and tie it to deep-seeded structural changes that have been zapping worker bargaining power for decades. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 4:29 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Ai-jen Poo jumped into a taxi after her flight from Chicago touched down at La Guardia Airport last week, hurtling straight into Manhattan for four days of back-to-back meetings devoted to improving the lives of domestic workers.Soon, she was hammering out strategies to help expand access to health care for undocumented immigrants. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 6:05 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from thinkprogress.org Nearly 40 percent of all workers in the country made less than $20,000 last year, according to data from the Social Security Administration, which doesn’t include figures on benefits such as health insurance or pensions. [read post]
26 May 2014, 5:55 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com As governor of Florida, Jeb Bush flew in Ivy League social scientists for daylong seminars with his staff and carved out time for immersive brainstorming sessions he called “think weeks. [read post]
13 Dec 2014, 12:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.bizjournals.com The National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that employees can use their employer's email systems for union organizing communications during nonwork hours.The decision, in a case involving Purple Communications, applies to employees who already had been granted access to their employer's email systems. [read post]
9 Nov 2013, 6:24 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.huffingtonpost.com Surrounded by about 100 police officers in riot gear and a helicopter circling above, more than 50 Walmart workers and supporters were arrested in downtown Los Angeles Thursday night as they sat in the street protesting what they called the retailer's "poverty wages." [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 5:31 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.hrw.org A groundbreaking global treaty on the rights of domestic workers goes into legal effect on September 5, 2013, offering vital protections to millions of workers around the world, Human Rights Watch said today. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 4:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.epi.org Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 5:10 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from jacobinmag.com Why the Left shouldn’t write off low-wage strikes. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 6:03 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.newyorker.com It’s telling that in France, where several stores are fighting an order requiring them to close on Sundays, retail employees showed up at work last month wearing T-shirts that read, “YES WEEK END. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 3:36 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.bloomberg.com Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB) will blacklist a spinning mill in southern India after a report claimed five manufacturers there use child labor and subjected workers, mostly women and girls, to “appalling” working conditions.H&M will ban suppliers from using products made by Tamil Nadu-based Super Spinning Mills Ltd. [read post]
