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Clash over government role in worker safety intensifies as businesses reopen

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

Democrats and unions are trying to compel the Trump administration to aggressively police workplace safety as businesses from auto plants to retail stores begin reopening across the country. The AFL-CIO, which represents more than 12 million workers, on Monday asked a federal court to force the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue mandatory workplace …

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Trump Administration Quietly Adds Foreign Arms Sale to List of “Essential Work”

Leave a Comment / Essential Worker / By max cyril

Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales. The memo, issued April 17, is a revised version of statements issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and …

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Fed’s Powell warns unemployment could reach Depression-level 25 percent

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Sunday warned that the nation’s unemployment rate could soar to 25 percent during the worst of the coronavirus crisis, though he said the economy should recover more quickly than during the Great Depression, when joblessness last reached those levels. “Those numbers sound about right for what the peak may …

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Being an “Essential Worker” Won’t Save You From Deportation

Leave a Comment / Essential Worker, Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

Legions of undocumented immigrants in the United States carry letters signed by their employers stating that President Donald Trump’s administration considers them essential workers amid the pandemic. While these letters exempt them from being arrested by local agents for violating stay-at-home orders, these workers could still be detained and deported by federal authorities. José (a …

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Job losses have now hit 40% of low-income homes

Leave a Comment / furloughs, layoffs / By max cyril

Thirteen percent of all U.S. adults, or 20 percent of people who were employed in February, were laid off or furloughed. One in five American workers lost their jobs in March, including almost 40 percent of those in lower-income households, according to a Federal Reserve survey, underscoring the staggering impact of the coronavirus crisis. The data …

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Tammy Johnson Leads Wyoming’s Labor Movement, Fighting for Struggling Workers and the Unemployed

Leave a Comment / Labor Movement, unemployment / By max cyril

With the Wyoming Legislature scheduled to begin an emergency session later this week, Wyoming State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Tammy Johnson (USW) is taking the lead fighting for workers in her home state. Policymakers are considering a bill that includes three major components: unemployment insurance (UI), workers’ compensation and rent relief. The UI provisions would hold employers harmless …

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Labor Department reports 36.5 million unemployment claims over 2 months

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Thursday’s report brought the eight-week total of coronavirus-induced layoffs to 36.5 million. Workers filed nearly 3 million new unemployment claims last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, signaling that a wave of coronavirus-induced layoffs is continuing as the country struggles to reopen for business. The latest number, which covers the week ending May 9, pushed …

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Labor Is Pioneering a New Kind of Relief Effort in the Twin Cities

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Scores of workers across America have been laid off through no fault of their own, and still many of them are not eligible for federal benefits during these unprecedented times. In Minnesota’s Twin Cities, the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation (MRLF) is organizing to provide support to those workers who can’t get the support they need from our …

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Layoffs have high stakes for foreign nationals and their employers

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As society reacts to the spread of COVID-19, businesses are making difficult decisions. Despite the government’s interventions to encourage continuity in the workforce, unemployment is at historic rates and still rising. This creates high stakes for employers of foreign nationals. The inflexible regulatory scheme governing such employment did not anticipate COVID-19. It’s important to approach layoffs, …

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Trump deems farmworkers ‘essential’ but not safety rules for them. That could threaten the food supply.

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By max cyril

The Trump administration has deemed the millions of people who are cutting lettuce, picking cherries, packing peaches and otherwise getting food from farm to table to be “essential workers” but is doing little to keep them healthy during the pandemic. The lack of federal action has left state and industry leaders scrambling to shield their …

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