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Archives for August 22, 2021
Cutoff of Jobless Benefits Is Found to Get Few Back to Work
Prematurely ending federal programs had little effect on employment but sharply cut spending, potentially hurting state economies, researchers say.
Liz Shuler Is Named President of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Ms. Shuler was the No. 2 official before Richard Trumka’s death. A vote to fill the top post for a full term will be held in June.
Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88
As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics.
Remote Work May Now Last for Two Years, Worrying Some Bosses
The longer that Covid-19 keeps people home, the harder it may be to get them back to offices; ‘There is no going back’
Nabisco workers say their strike is “a fight for the American middle class”
Nabisco workers now walking picket lines in four U.S. states say their first strike in 52 years is about keeping what they already had as employees producing Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and other snacks for the global food conglomerate.
Many Americans workers have an edge over employers right now. But not everyone.
A pandemic-tightened labor market has given willing and able workers more of an upper hand with their employers for the first time in generations.
Calif. not likely to update workplace pandemic standards until December
With on-the-job outbreaks of the coronavirus on the rise across California, state workplace safety regulators once again find themselves racing to update rules on vaccines, masking and a host of other virus prevention measures.
Most US employees favor workplace COVID vaccine mandates, poll finds
Most workers in the US are in favor of their company requiring all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Marijuana drug tests in the workplace would follow same standard as DUI, under proposed change in Illinois law
After years working successfully as an electrical substation operator for ComEd, Andre Burson said, he failed a marijuana drug test.
Workplace Culture Doesn’t Matter. Until It Does.
Why how we treat each other at work is more critical than ever.
Employees gain more power in the workplace during Covid pandemic
As the number of jobs available exceeds the number of unemployed people, the American worker gains the upper hand in the workplace amid the ongoing pandemic.
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