The Michigan legislature seemed to take bold steps toward improving working conditions for its constituents: It passed legislation that would guarantee workers the right to earn paid sick leave, as well as a minimum wage increase to $12 an hour.
Corporate critics cry foul when SEC releases CEO pay data.
For the first time in recent memory workers in multiple Chicago hotels have walked off the job at the same time, and it appears to have taken management by surprise.
Judge Kavanaugh would return workplace law to the 19th century. He would deny working people our most fundamental rights. And that’s exactly why he was nominated. He’s been vetted by the same people who’ve been pulling the strings since Bush v. Gore.
The only thing that will protect service workers is a fundamental cultural transformation that renders groping the nanny a shock to the sensibilities of most men.
All North American workers, however, would benefit from the new labor chapter. Mexican “protection unions,” set up before anyone is hired to lock in low wages, would be effectively banned under the agreement.
Non-white workers build more wealth as union members
Job tenure, benefits create access to saving and investment
Workers rights under the law have suffered systemic neglect since the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. Fixing it is a start, but much more needs to be done.
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