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New Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for Workers

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

The meat and poultry industry remains exceptionally dangerous, despite a decline in reported injuries and illnesses over the past 10 years, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Further, says the report, the injury and illness rates reflected in Department of Labor numbers are significantly underreported. As a result, these figures do not fully …

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The New Agenda For Taking On Wall Street

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

More than 20 progressive organizations representing millions of voters are putting their weight behind a five-point agenda for the next stage of Wall Street reform. What these groups will formally announce Tuesday, in an event featuring Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, sets a high but practical standard for what a candidate would have to embrace to …

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Is Your Workplace Wellness Plan Worth the Risk?

Leave a Comment / health care / By max cyril

As healthcare costs continue to soar, many employers are using wellness programs as a way to help curb their costs. In addition, employees who enroll in wellness programs also enjoy the program’s great health incentives and rewards, however, unbeknownst to them, the personal information collected may also be used for other undisclosed financial or discriminatory …

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Interfaith Coalition Calls for Moral Action on the Economy

Important Study Looks At Silicon Valley’s “Invisible” Low Wage Workers

What’s The Problem With “Free Trade”

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Our country’s “free trade” agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate. There are those who say any increase in trade is good. But if you close a factory here and lay off the workers, open the factory “there” to make the …

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Joy to the Workers

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

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 …

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Spare a thought for workers who don’t get a Thanksgiving holiday

Leave a Comment / Thanksgiving / By max cyril

There are jobs that have to be done on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every other day of the year. We need doctors and nurses and firefighters and police. Then there are jobs that don’t have to be done … but workers are forced to do them anyway, because profit. Because the workers aren’t given a choice, other than the …

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Bottom Line: Does the TPP Trade Deal “Put American Workers First”?

Leave a Comment / Trans-Pacific Partnership / By max cyril

The full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has finally been released and We the People can see what has been negotiated in our name. President Obama laid out the bottom line, saying the deal “puts American workers first.” Does it? TPP Text The full text of TPP can be seen here. The text consists …

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