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WHICH STATES AND CITIES HAVE ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE COVID-19 WORKER PROTECTIONS?

Leave a Comment / OSHA, Worker Protection / By max cyril

14 STATES HAVE ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE COVID WORKER SAFETY PROTECTIONS SO FAR As the COVID-19 pandemic surges in the United States, workers have continued to protest and organize for their safety and health—but action is needed at all levels of government, starting with the top. To date, the Trump administration—specifically, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration—has resisted issuing any workplace …

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VA Workers Say Southern States Reopening Too Soon Puts Veterans’ Lives At Risk

Leave a Comment / Workers / By max cyril

As Republican governors across the South gear up to reopen businesses in their states over the objections of public health experts, health care workers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)—already stretched thin in the face of the COVID-19 crisis—fear for their vulnerable patients, and for themselves. The governors of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee say they …

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Eight years after the last minimum wage increase, Democrats want to give 41 million workers a raise

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009—for eight years. Thanks to Republicans in Congress and the White House, it won’t be going up any time soon, and though many states have raised their minimum wages, 21 states remain stuck at $7.25 an hour. That’s a poverty wage. …

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Drug Tests for Welfare Bills Come to Three More States

Leave a Comment / unemployment, workplace issues / By max cyril

Looking at the range of drug testing-for-benefits bills being pushed in state legislatures across the country, you almost have to suspect Republicans of some kind of urine fetish. In addition to all the states that are debating or have passed bills requiring people applying for unemployment insurance benefits to pee in cups, drug-testing bills aimed …

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Most States Flunk Wage Theft Test

Leave a Comment / wage theft / By max cyril

A new report from the Progressive States Network (PSN) finds that workers in 44 states have little to no protection against wage theft. “Where Theft Is Legal: Mapping Wage Theft Laws in the 50 States” reports that: States’ wage theft laws are grossly inadequate, contributing to a rising trend in workplace violations that affect millions …

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A Civil War: We’re Eating Each Other For the Crumbs

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

In a crisis, it’s a tough thing to watch people scramble to survive. And those that already have a lot usually are in the driver’s seat, ready to pit one person against the other. The same is true for states–ever desperate to try to get a few jobs for its citizens (and, need I point …

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