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Labor unions could see a huge boost in revenues estimated at $9.3 billion in dues from workers if ...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Anniversary of killing of George Floyd remembered in Minneapolis May 25, 2021 11:53 AM CDT By Associated Press In this Wednesday, April 21, 2021, file photo, a man holds a sign at George Floyd Square, in Minneapolis, a day after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin wa...

Timothy Hurst, Boulder Daily Camera A University of Colorado labor union has questioned the university system’s priorities, pandemic cutbacks, and business model, and urges more spending on students and employees. Tracy Berger, a CU employee who helped write the report, said she wants the University of Colorado System to continue managing its finances while better caring for its employees and students. The union also has called on the system to be more transparent in budgeting, pay living wag...

Federal Labor Board’s Staff Cheered Biden’s Unprecedented Firing of Trump-Appointed General Counsel When President Joe Biden fired then-National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb within minutes of taking the oath of office on Jan. 20, career staffers cheered, according to internal emails obtained by the National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF). Biden’s demand that Robb resign his post by the end of the official business day was delivered to him within 23 minutes of ...

Gloria Jean Vitayanuvatti, 70, of Warrenton, died Wednesday, May 12, 2021.

ADVERTISEMENT Distributor Defends Arbitrators Decision In Row With CWA Law360 (May 17, 2021, 3:13 PM EDT) -- A Texas federal judge must uphold an arbitrators decision that the Communications Workers of America waited too long to advance a grievance over a fired worker, a Yellow Pages distributor argued, saying mere disagreement with the arbitrators interpretation of a labor contract is not enough to disturb the award. In dueling motions Friday, Thryv Inc. and the CWA asked U.S. District Judge ...

Media makes mayoral endorsements as Wall Street seeks best candidate to manage New York’s crisis The New York State primary elections are less than six weeks away, and they include the contest for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. The nominee is virtually guaranteed victory in the general election, which will not take place until November. The first of three debates between the leading candidates in the June 22 primary is expected to include eight of the contenders and is ...

CEO pay schemes targeted by stockholders, judges, unions

There is a tension between the goals of industrial workers and those of environmentalists — groups that Democrats count as politically crucial.

USA Today New York State Team ALBANY — New York employers will have to improve workplace safety as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the NY HERO Act, or the New York Health and Essential Rights Act, into law last Wednesday, requiring state regulators to implement new minimum standards for workplace safety. The law looks to bolster protections against airborne illnesses as COVID exposed weaknesses in state law that may have helped fuel the virus’ spread through...