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For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap? President Biden says slowing climate change will create jobs. Tension between unions and environmentalists shows it’s not so simple. A wind-turbine assembly line in Saint-Nazaire, France. A plan for a wind-tower factory in upstate New York raised concerns about the lack of a domestic supply chain.Credit...Theophile Trossat for The New York Times May 11, 2021 Patricia Fahy, a New York State legislator, celebrated when a new development ...

The PRO Act would reshape the tech industry — will it get the chance? A pivotal piece of union legislation is stuck in the Senate Share this story The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is holding a hearing this week to contest the results of the Amazon union election. Organizers say the retail giant interrogated employees, spread anti-union propaganda, and held captive audience meetings. These tactics might seem dirty, but most aren’t explicitly illegal. “According ...

"A Justice Department with a strong commitment to civil rights will improve the lives of educators, healthcare professionals, public employees and the communities in which AFT members live and serve. Clarke’s entire working life has been dedicated to this commitment," American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten wrote in a letter dated April 28. ADVERTISEMENT Clarke also received support in a letter from the National Education Association, which is the largest union repres...

Park Record file photo With Parkites shifting their focus from skiing to summertime pursuits, the contract between Park City Mountain Resort and its ski patrollers quietly expired May 1, with the sides still unable to strike a multi-year deal nine months after sitting down at the bargaining table. That’s an “unprecedented” length of time, according to the local union leader, one during which ski patrols in two popular destinations in Colorado and Montana have voted to begin their own unio...

Google Childcare Workers Circulate Petition for Commute Pay Bloomberg 5/7/2021 © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Google HP SOCIAL (Bloomberg) -- Google’s workers who provide childcare and education for staffers’ kids say the internet giant is summoning them back to the office without restoring the shuttle service they rely on, and they’re circulating a petition urging the Alphabet Inc. unit to provide a transportation stipend to cover commuting costs. Popular Searches “Sh...

Google Childcare Workers Circulate Petition for Commute Pay Bloomberg 1 day ago © Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Google HP SOCIAL (Bloomberg) -- Google’s workers who provide childcare and education for staffers’ kids say the internet giant is summoning them back to the office without restoring the shuttle service they rely on, and they’re circulating a petition urging the Alphabet Inc. unit to provide a transportation stipend to cover commuting costs. “Shifting this cost...

Soros’s Open Society Returns More Focus to Fight Authoritarianism Around the Globe Akos Stiller, Redux George Soros’s philanthropy has grown from trying to open up societies under the grip of communism in Central Europe to a global force for social change. Here, health workers supported by Open Society provide Covid-19 tests to people in a Budapest homeless shelter. Open Society Foundations, the sprawling $20 billion philanthropy of George Soros, will dedicate tens of millions of ad...

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 health-care facilities and other wor...

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. Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons WASHINGTON—In the decad...

Lawmakers disputed potential financial impacts on private adult-care facilities Tuesday before voting to require adequate numbers of nurses and all care staff in hospitals and congregate facilities under state law. The Legislature continued reforms included in the 2021-22 budget Tuesday with the passage of A108-B/S1168-A to require all New York hospitals to meet certain staffing levels, maintaining a base nurse to patient ratio. The measure passed unanimously 63-0 in the Senate. The Legislature...