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CEO to Worker Pay: 299 to 1
The following was put out by Union Matters, a comprehensive email put out by the NYC Central Labor Council every Friday. You can sign up for it by clicking here. 2020’s growth in pay...
OSHA Issues Safety Order for Healthcare Workers
15 months after COVID hit the United States and six months after President Biden ordered OSHA to create a COVID workplace standard, the agency has finally released a temporary safety standard, but...
Report: AFL-CIO Continues to Work with Police Unions
Last summer, during the height of the protests against the killing of George Floyd and police brutality, the AFL-CIO announced the creation of the “Task Force on Racial Justice.” A...
275 Workers a Day Die in the United States
This post was written by the AFL-CIO. In 2019, 5,333 working people were killed on the job and an estimated 95,000 died from occupational diseases, according to the 30th edition of the report...
100 Days of Helping Workers
Thursday, April 29th marked the 100th day that Joe Biden has been President of the United States. The first 100 days have been used as a benchmark since President Franklin Roosevelt on how successful...
Georgia Voting Bill Makes it Illegal to Hand Out Water
Just a few months ago, voters in Georgia headed to the polls to deliver the state for President Joe Biden and in January elected two Democrats to the United States Senate. Those two Senators allowed...
Biden Meets with Labor Leaders in the White House
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris invited union leaders to the White House on Wednesday to discuss investing in infrastructure and the COVID relief bill. Included in the meeting...
Biden Signs Order to Create COVID OSHA Standard
One day after taking the oath of office to become the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden has hit the ground running with a number of Executive Orders (EO) aimed at controlling the COVID-...
AFL-CIO: Ban Imports from Forced Cotton Labor Plants
The Uyghur region in China is the site of one of the world’s largest forced labor camps. These camps have an estimated 1.5 million Uyghurs in them. Many have been sent there for “re-...
Will Unions' Calls to Resign Work?
Nearly a week ago Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote. They were spurred on by Trump, Senators like Missouri’s Josh Hawley...