Labor
Trumka says he’ll back Obama on a new pro-worker trade policy
March 25, 2014The death of fast-track, Obama told the Center for American Progress, gives him the opportunity to construct a new trade policy to benefit workers in the U.S. and worldwide, that guarantees labor rights, that protects "buy...
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New York City settles suit by minority firemen
March 24, 2014A settlement has been reached in a discrimination suit filed by the Vulcan Society and the city over the use of racially based civil service tests that favored white applicants.
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Regulatory oversight weak in aftermath of Texas City oil plant blast
March 21, 2014But OSHA is so short-staffed, say the Steel Workers who represent the workers at Texas City that an average U.S. refinery would get a PSM inspection once every 120 years.
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Lawmakers unveil bill to hold employers responsible for supervisors’ sexual harassment
March 20, 2014A coalition of congressional Democrats introduced legislation to hold employers responsible for their lower-level supervisors' sexual harassment of workers.
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The BP Texas City oil plant blast: What’s changed and what hasn’t
March 20, 2014Nine years ago, on March 23, 2005, the British Petroleum oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, an hour south of Houston, in so many words, blew up.
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