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The ski patrollers will join the Communications Workers of America labor union as a result of the election.

Pandemic Fuels Passage Of NY Bills To Prevent Understaffing In Hospitals And Nursing Homes arrow A medical employee steps outside of an emergency room at Elmhurst Hospital Center, April 4th, 2021 Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock After years of languishing in the state legislature, measures to create minimum staffing requirements for hospitals and nursing homes passed both houses on Tuesday. Nurses say short staffing is a long-time issue, and research shows that the shortcom...

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...

iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians walk off job as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office Shares With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Cos shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme thats leaving workers struggling to make ends meet." The CWU is the Communi...

The proposed legislation would give the Public Service Commission regulatory authority over internet providers in New York Author: Nate Benson (WGRZ) Updated: 11:26 PM EDT May 3, 2021 ALBANY, N.Y. — Western New York Senator Sean Ryan continued his push to promote the "New York Broadband Resiliency and Public Safety and Quality Act" in Albany on Monday.  At a joint press conference with Assemblymember Nily Rozic, Ryan reiterated that the bill would give the Pub...

AT&T violated labor law but can still ban workers from recording conversations, NLRB rules The NLRB said the rule was unlawfully applied — but that shouldn’t make it illegal Share this story Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or colleagues is legal, according to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Monday. The board found that while AT&T violated US labor law i...

64 10 minutes read International Workers Day, May 1, is celebrated by tens of millions of people around the world. Its radical history emerged from the Haymarket Square resistance and the massacre that followed in 1886. May Day was revived as a workers’ day by the immigrant rights movement in the United States in 2009. As the labor movement continues to blossom in the U.S., more and more people here now recognize International Workers Day, or “May Day.” Thousands of workers joined May ...

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Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians walk off job as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office Shares With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Cos shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme thats leaving workers struggling to make ends meet." The CWU is the Communi...