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The Narrow, Ineffective and Wholly Inadequate U.S. Debate about Paid Sick Leave

Leave a Comment / paid leave / By max cyril

In the rush — or at least the pretense of rush — to bring immediate economic relief to the millions of average workers gutted by the tanking global economy brought on by the coronavirus, Democratic Party elites and centrist papers of record Washington Post and New York Times are cementing the terms of the debate to a narrow, ineffective, and …

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Transit Workers Win Organizing Victories: Worker Wins

Coronavirus is a huge labor issue, this week in the war on workers

2 Comments / labor / By max cyril

Thanks largely to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, workers’ issues are getting a lot of attention as the United States confronts coronavirus. We’ll see what Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell do with it, but Democrats (and COVID-19) have managed to get paid sick leave and paid family leave into the national …

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COVID-19 makes Michigan Republicans’ 2018 trickery to block strong paid sick leave look even worse

Leave a Comment / paid sick leave / By max cyril

Michigan workers without paid sick leave have an extra reason to be angry about being forced to go to work during the coronavirus pandemic: Republicans in their state went to extreme lengths to keep 1.5 million Michigan workers from getting paid sick leave in 2018. In 2018, Republicans blocked a ballot measure that would have let workers at businesses …

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Coronavirus Prevention That Works For Working People

1 Comment / Workers / By max cyril

America isn’t ready for coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, millions of school children across the country have been told to stay home for two weeks, or even longer. This is an important public health step to stop the spread, but it also means parents can’t go to work. I’m fixing lunch for a 9 …

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Unions Across America Are Screaming For Paid Sick Leave and Healthcare

Leave a Comment / paid leave, unions / By max cyril

As coronavirus spreads, sowing panic and economic dislocation, unions across the country are using the crisis as an opportunity to call for priorities that were dismissed as left-wing fantasies not long ago—and now seem like common sense. Virtually every union with members in a position to be exposed to the illness itself or to its …

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The Culinary Union Faces Its Biggest Test as Coronavirus Shuts Down Vegas

1 Comment / unions / By max cyril

There may be no more vivid illustration of the economic havoc being wreaked by the coronavirus than the rapid shutdown of the Las Vegas strip. What was a booming tourist destination a week ago is now in the process of becoming a locked down row of empty buildings. For the Culinary Union, whose 60,000 members …

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When Your Employer Asks You to Work from Home! Are You Prepared?

Leave a Comment / Remote Work / By max cyril

Make Working from Home an Asset for You & Your Employer You have dreamt of this and now it is happening. Maybe not for the best reasons, but you may be asked to work from home in the near future. Are you prepared? Once it happens and your company realizes that it is business as …

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5 Steps To Ensure Your Work-From-Home Employees Maximize Corporate Performance

Leave a Comment / Remote Work / By max cyril

Use These Guidelines to Ensure That Your Remote Workplace Is A Corporate Asset The advent of employees working from the home continues to rise, a trend that will surely continue in the future. Corporations recognize that an increasing number of employees – particularly millennials and contract workers in the “gig” economy – value this option …

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Donald Trump Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security

1 Comment / Social Security / By max cyril

Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the payroll contribution rate is a stealth attack on Social Security. Even if the proposal were to replace Social Security’s dedicated revenue with deficit-funded general revenue, the proposal would undermine this vital program. The proposal is a Trojan horse. It appears to be a gift, in the form of middle-class …

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