Labor
Oregon hospital workers lose their union over one smudged ballot
August 3, 2020PORTLAND, Ore.--Back in February 2019, we reported on a razor-thin union election in which over 800 hospital support workers at Providence Portland Medical Center won a union by just one vote. Now we have to update...
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Transportation unions demand Trump’s DOT mandate masks
July 31, 2020The penalty if the patrons don’t: They get booted off the subway, bus, commuter rail car or plane, immediately.
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California childcare workers score biggest union win of the century
July 30, 2020Biden calls for extending that win nationwide.
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NEA chief: Trump’s back-to-school command endangers kids, parents, teachers
July 29, 2020“We are carefully working with the school boards, the health inspectors, the parents and the kids” to determine what’s best to do when schools are supposed to start again in late August.
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Meatpackers sue OSHA demanding virus safety enforcement at Maid-Rite plant
July 24, 2020The workers said in their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg that even though OSHA has known about conditions at the plant since early April, it’s done nothing.
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