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25 Oct 2014, 5:09 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The governors of New York and New Jersey on Friday ordered quarantines for all people entering the country through two area airports if they had direct contact with Ebola patients in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.The announcement signaled an immediate shift in mood, since public officials had gone to great lengths to ease public anxiety after a New York City doctor received a diagnosis of Ebola on… [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 6:23 pm
Not only is it going to increase benefits for injured workers that are calculated on wages, but it is also going increase much needed premium dollars for insurance companies whose premiums are based on payroll costs.NY Gov Andrew Cuomo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)How it happened is an interesting story authored by Steven Greenhouse in an article appearing in the NY Times:"BACK in November 2012, when Alterique Hall, an $8-an-hour McDonald’s cashier in New York, joined… [read post]
30 Nov 2013, 2:24 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.cjr.org But labor gets short shrift in too much of the coverage of encroaching commercializationPerhaps I’m feeling a little wistful as I prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving outside the U.S. for the first time.As I told Brooke Gladstone this weekend on On the Media, it’s my favorite day of the year. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 5:28 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.comPRATO, Italy — Dozens of bouquets block the entrance to the Teresa Moda outlet and factory where seven Chinese workers died last Sunday in a fire that swept through the establishment where they worked and lived. [read post]
26 May 2014, 5:51 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com When Henry Ford realized it was good business to pay employees enough to buy the products they built, it was a breakthrough, not only because the idea challenged the reflex to pay as little as possible, but because the product was a car. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 4:48 am
An increase in wages will have a direct impact on workers' compensation as wages determine rates of compensation benefits.Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com ’Tis the season to be jolly — or, at any rate, to spend a lot of time in shopping malls. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 2:32 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.theatlantic.com Vermont has some of the most progressive wage-and-hour laws in the country, but low-income workers are still struggling.Lauren Giordano/The AtlantiBURLINGTON, Vt. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 3:18 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com The past three recessions sparked a chain reaction of layoffs and lower payMidway through the last game of the 2013 Carolina League season, after he’d swept peanut shells and mopped soda off the concourse, Ed Green lumbered upstairs to the box seats to dump the garbage.Green was already 12 hours into his workday. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 3:50 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.msnbc.com DURHAM, North Carolina — For nearly a month and a half, protesting fast food workers have insisted that they were willing to do “whatever it takes” in order to earn union recognition and a higher wage. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 2:09 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from thinkprogress.org (Credit: AP) If McDonalds were to double the salaries and benefits of all of its employees, from the CEO down to the minimum wage cashiers, it would still only cost an extra 68 cents for a Big Mac, according to a new report. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 8:27 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com As labor gatherings go, this one was highly unusual — 68 workers arrived on charter buses from St. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 5:06 pm
Wisconsin Gvernor Scott Walker continue to battle workers' rights as the 2016 Presidential campaign cycle draws closer.Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nationaljournal.com The controversial measure will incense unions and could bolster Walker's profile among Republicans as he weighs a 2016 presidential bid.Wisconsin Gov. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 2:48 pm
Steven Greenhouse, the New York Times labour reporter, wrote a good article on the decision. [read post]
7 Feb 2015, 1:50 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.huffingtonpost.com A majority of Americans think employers should be required to pay for sick leave and time off for new parents, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll.Seventy percent say companies should be compelled to offer paid sick leave to employees, while 67 percent favor paid maternity leave, and 55 percent support paid paternity leave, the poll found.About 40 percent of private-sector workers, many in… [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 6:11 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from mobile.nytimes.com The garment factory’s closed-circuit camera captured some unusual activity: Out front a female union leader was swarmed by people, pushed to the ground and assaulted while a male union activist was chased away and punched.Another female union leader entered the factory door and seconds later was pushed outside, then shoved out of camera range.Two investigations of the episodes depicted in the… [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 4:01 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Two weeks ago, Pin Zhu Zheng, who says she worked 69 hours a week behind a steam table at a Chinatown restaurant on Centre Street, presented herself at a New York State office to report what seemed to be flagrant lawbreaking by her former bosses. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 2:37 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.baltimoresun.com The good news as Labor Day approaches: Jobs are returning. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 4:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from business.time.com People gather outside of a Wendy's restaurant as part of a one day strike calling for higher wages for fast food workers in New York, July 29, 2013. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 3:50 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com In July 2013, hotelier Scott Ostrander stood before the city council in SeaTac, Wash., pleading with the town not to adopt a $15 minimum wage. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 1:14 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.salon.com McDonald’s advises its low-wage workers to try “breaking food into pieces” to feel full, and urges them to “pack your bags” for vacation, “chew away cares” with gum, “keep the faith” by going to church, and “sing away stress. [read post]
