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Minnesota Amazon workers plan Prime Day strike, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / worker's rights / By max cyril

Consider there to be a digital picket line around Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day. Workers in a Shakopee, Minnesota, warehouse are staging a walkout for six hours of Prime Day to protest harsh working conditions. Amazon’s answer to the workers’ protest is that it raised wages to a $15 minimum. Which is good. But it’s not what they’re talking …

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Trump administration attacks unions for fast-growing occupation, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

A new part of the Trump administration’s ongoing quest to weaken worker power goes into effect this Friday, in the form of a new regulation banning automatic union dues deduction for home health workers paid directly by Medicaid. That means that the workers, many of whom have only recently become union members—and have gotten significant raises as …

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After letter from former undocumented employees, Trump feigns ignorance

Leave a Comment / Undocumented Employees / By max cyril

Amid the ongoing immigration crisis in the U.S., President Donald Trump claimed this week that he “didn’t know” that his own properties had hired numerous undocumented migrants as long-time employees. Asked specifically about undocumented employees at Trump’s numerous golf clubs, Trump pleaded ignorance to The New York Times on Friday. “I don’t know because I don’t run …

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Kavanaugh Is Terrible on Workers’ Rights—And That’s Anti-Woman, Too

Leave a Comment / Supreme Court / By max cyril

On October 6, the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican federal appellate judge accused by multiple women of sexual assault, to the Supreme Court. In light of the allegations—which include attempted rape—the opposition to Kavanaugh has been dominated by concerns about the impact he will have on the lives of women. In addition …

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Trump’s war on workers is flying under the radar, but it’s relentless

Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Could Spell a Fresh Hell for Workers’ Rights

Leave a Comment / Supreme Court / By max cyril

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced his nomination of conservative Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, Chief Justice John Roberts, a fellow conservative, will become the ideological and political center of the Supreme Court, and protections for women, minorities, voting rights, civil liberties and …

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Fight for $15 Just Scored a Big Win in Maryland. We Have Unions to Thank.

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

A law establishing a $15-an-hour minimum wage in Maryland’s Montgomery County was signed into law Monday, representing a comeback win after a similar measure was defeated by pro-business Democrats just ten months ago. It’s a meaningful victory for the Fight for $15, the union-inspired campaign to raise wages nationally. Montgomery is the most populous county …

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Workplace Fairness Applauds the Withdrawal of Andrew Puzder’s Nomination for Labor Secretary

U.N. Special Report: U.S. Workers Restricted in Exercising Basic Union Rights

Leave a Comment / worker's rights / By max cyril

A new report finds that the United States fails to uphold the most basic rights of workers, particularly in the South, where some states “support or collude with employers to infringe upon workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association.” The report cited examples such as Tennessee officials’ opposition to unionization at a Volkswagen plant and …

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Domestic Workers in Ill. Win Bill of Rights: “Years of Organizing Have Finally Paid Off”

Leave a Comment / Wage and Hour / By max cyril

Domestic workers in Illinois are celebrating a new bill of rights. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the bill into law last week, capping a 5-year campaign and making Illinois the 7th state to adopt such a protection. Sponsored by Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-8th District) in the Senate and Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez (D-24th District) in the House, …

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