New Orleans More than a thousand fast food workers rallied at a convention center near O’Hare Airport in Chicago in a boisterous, morale boosting event sponsored by the Service Employees International Union in the on-going campaign for a living wage. More interesting is the ongoing effort by the union to define the employer for many …
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Are New Obamacare Rules Another Step Backward for Low Wage Workers?
New Orleans It isn’t hard to understand the thinking behind the new IRS regulations to clarify the rules for employers who might be trying to hustle the margins on the Affordable Care Act and “dump” workers onto the system to save a couple of bucks. The problem is that the rules completely ignore the reality …
How in FCC World Can Workers’ News Not be News?
New Orleans The Workers Independent News has been around a long time, pushing on a couple of decades. Supported by unions and heard on about 175 radio stations around the country, including soon on the KABF Labor Show produced by Local 100 of the United Labor Unions, WIN is widely recognized for its value in …