Think Twice Before Buying Holiday Gifts for Your Boss
A third of U.S. workers say they buy presents for their manager. It’s time to end this predatory ritual once and for all.
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: The Season of Giving: IBEW Local 103 Holds Annual Christmas Toy Drive
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Members of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103 in Boston came together over the weekend to …
Joy to the Workers
The spirit of the season is generosity. Eight toys for Hanukkah. A partridge in a pear tree and 11 other quirky presents. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. It’s the thought that counts. And the thought is good-hearted. That’s why the season works so well. To keep it all rolling happily along, however, workers need …
Jobs: Gifts We Really Need
This is the season of gift giving and, for millions of us, the present we really need is a job. We know that American families need jobs. But American businesses also need jobs—rather, they need customers with jobs. When millions of unemployed workers and their families have little money to spend, businesses, big and small, have …
NBC Labor Dispute Threatens Rockefeller Center Christmas Special
A labor dispute is threatening NBC’s “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” telecast. The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 11, which represents nearly 3,000 of NBC’s producers, writers, and technicians, vowed Tuesday to “pull the plug” on Wednesday’s Christmas special -— which includes the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — over …
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