New Orleans Portland became the fourth city to approve an ordinance for paid sick leave for workers in their city, joining Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. with Philadelphia on the verge of becoming the fifth city any day. Connecticut is the only state to have created a mandatory employer obligation. The benefits are not [...]
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The St. Louis CIO's campaign for unemployment benefits in the 1940s New Orleans Eduardo Porter’s “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times is fast becoming a favorite read for me. He actually seems to care about people, including working and low income people. Probably not long for this world at the paper, but worth [...] New Orleans It is time to examine the results of all of the sound and fury of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions that conservatives claimed would bring the end of world as they knew it. The conclusion to date is that there is no change whatsoever! Step back for a minute and remember that [...] New Orleans The NLRB has announced a new rule-making procedure on representation elections. Labor will try to paint lipstick on this pig, and business and their political friends will claim this is the end of the world as they know it, but in truth unions know this is not what they had wanted or [...] New Orleans John Hiatt, now the AFL-CIO chief of staff under Richard Trumka, and previously general counsel under John Sweeney, was [...] |
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