Labor
BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
July 2, 2020Donald Trump’s happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation’s current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues.
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Farmworkers: Big California farm sickens workers, families with coronavirus
July 2, 2020Primex is only making a bad situation worse by bringing in replacement workers for its ill employees, from the outside and through labor contractors, a common tactic growers use to exploit workers in the nation’s farms...
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Teachers: High Court opens way for taxpayer dollars for religious schools
July 1, 2020The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision allowing Montanans tax credits to pay for tuition at private – read “religious” – schools will cut dollars available to public schools and kids.
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Panel on Black workers: Government action critical
June 30, 2020“If we don’t figure this out, lives could be at stake."
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Biden backs strikers at Bath Iron Works
June 29, 2020“The union has struggled and bargained over decades to make these safe, quality jobs that Maine workers can survive in over a long career and earn a decent living."
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