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Publisher pledges to set up $18 million fund for people it never wronged as government regulator avoids the "distraction" of a lawsuit

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A critical review of Chris Rhomberg's The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.

Publisher pledges to set up $18 million fund for people it never wronged as government regulator avoids the "distraction" of a lawsuit

Following news that Activision Blizzard plans to settle the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) complaint for just $US18 ($25)

By Syndicated Content By Daniel Wiessner and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed union lawyers Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty to seats on the National Labor Relations Board, paving the way for a Democratic majority that is likely to reverse a series of employer-friendly Trump-era decisions. The Democrat-led Senate voted 52-47 to approve the nomination of Wilcox, a partner at Levy Ratner in New York, and 53-46 to confirm Prouty, the gen...

JANESVILLE The labor union that represents workers at Janesville’s Hufcor factory is now pressuring Hufcor owner OpenGate Capital with a shame campaign that is playing out in Los Angeles, OpenGate’s corporate home city. The Industrial Division of the Communication Workers of America paid to publish an open letter to OpenGate Capital CEO Andrew Nikou in an advertisement that printed Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times. The union represents about 160 workers in Janesville whose jobs are ...

JANESVILLE As union workers at Janesville’s Hufcor plant face losing their jobs to Mexico, one lawmaker is taking a stand against corporate private equity owners that drive such decisions. On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin met at the labor temple on Janesville’s south side with several Hufcor workers tasked with negotiating for the Industrial Division of the Communication Workers of America Local 84811, the union that represents most of the 175-some employees who work at moveable ...

The local union representing employees at Hufcor is putting up a fight against their parent company’s plan to close its Jan

The workers at Hufcor in Janesville are not going down without a fight. Union representatives plan to bargain with the man