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The Other Victims of California’s Fires: Workers Inhaling Toxic Fumes

Leave a Comment / OSHA, Uncategorized / By max cyril

With the death toll now standing at 42 and with some 7,200 structures destroyed, officials are now calling the wildfire in Paradise, CA (dubbed the “Camp Fire”) the deadliest and most destructive in California’s recent history. Two other massive fires—dubbed the Hill Fire and Woolsey Fire are simultaneously scorching Southern California. As frontline firefighters—including many prison laborers—continue to …

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You Can Be Fired for Not Showing Up to Work During a Hurricane

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

Ahead of a natural disaster like Hurricane Florence, politicians and safety officials tell the public to evacuate early and not wait until conditions get bad. We all know that you can lose your home and your belongings, but politicians never talk about the fact that during a disaster, many people can lose their jobs as …

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

Trump’s Supreme Court pick is eager to take the war on workers up a notch

Leave a Comment / Supreme Court / By max cyril

Another week, another bout of Supreme Court-related horror for workers. Up this week, Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad—a reminder that, even following a disastrous-for-workers Supreme Court session, things can get worse. Daily Kos’ own Meteor Blades wrote about Kavanaugh’s awful SeaWorld dissent, noting that Kavanaugh’s demeanor as he makes …

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What You Need to Know About Washington, D.C.’s Initiative 77 and the Minimum Wage

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

On Tuesday, Washington, D.C., voters will have an opportunity to vote on Initiative 77, a ballot measure supported by a wide array of progressive and labor organizations that would eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped workers and give many working families a much-needed raise. Initiative 77 would increase the tipped minimum wage to match the full …

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New Arizona law pushes unemployed people to work at poverty wages or else

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Arizona Republicans have hit on a way to make life worse for unemployed people. Currently, to collect unemployment insurance, people have to be looking for work and to accept “suitable” work if it’s offered. Under a new law, scratch that “suitable” part. People will have to accept any job they’re offered as long as it pays more …

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EPA reportedly ‘distorted’ meeting notes and workers could be more vulnerable to pesticide exposure

Leave a Comment / Agriculture / By max cyril

In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency met with several groups representing farmworkers to talk about three provisions of the worker protection rules to make farming safer. Organizers walked away feeling like there was some consensus between the groups, even though there was more work to be done on these issues. But when the …

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GOP Smash-And-Burn Tax Plan Does Nothing for Workers

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts / By max cyril

Congressional Republicans are selling a trickle-down tax scam times two. It’s the same old snake oil, with double hype and no cure. A single statistic explains it all: one percent of Americans – that is the tiny, exclusive club of billionaires and millionaires – get 80 percent of the gain from this tax con. Eighty percent! But …

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OSHA’s Claims About Hiding Information on Worker Deaths Fall Flat

With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections

Leave a Comment / overtime pay / By max cyril

On September 5, the administration of Donald Trump formally announced that they won’t try to save Obama’s overtime rule, effectively killing a potential raise for millions of Americans. This disturbing development has largely slipped under the radar during a busy news week, marked by Trump’s scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. …

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