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Wed, 03/17/2021 - 1:25pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday introduced the  Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act to take on corporate greed by raising taxes on companies that pay their top executives at least 50 times more than the pay of a median worker. Americans across the political spectrum are outraged by the extreme g...

How Amazon Crushes Unions In a secret settlement in Virginia, Amazon swore off threatening and intimidating workers. As the company confronts increased labor unrest, its tactics are under scrutiny. Amazon’s warehouse in Chester, Va., where a union effort tried to organize about 30 facilities technicians in 2014 and 2015.Credit...Carlos Bernate for The New York Times Published March 16, 2021Updated April 5, 2021 RICHMOND, Va. — Five years ago, Amazon was compelled to post a “notice to empl...

Credit: (Edwin J. Torres/ NJ Governors Office/CC BY-NC 2.0) Feb. 20, 2021: Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his pre-taped budget message in Trenton. Just the announcement that New Jersey wants to make a full public-worker pension payment during the state’s next fiscal year has thrilled labor union officials. For more than two decades they’ve watched the state routinely short pension payments, allowing a huge unfunded liability to pile up. “It is a stunning accomplishment and we’ve waited a rea...

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 On February 4, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The sponsors described the bill as comprehensive labor legislation aimed at bolstering workers’ collective bargaining rights. The legislation is an updated version of a 2020 bill that passed the House but never made it out of committee in the Senate. If enacted, the PRO Act would result in sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), includi...

CWA ENDORSES GOV MURPHY FOR RE-ELECTION Murphy’s Succeeded For NJ & Kept His Word To Working Families (TRENTON, NEW JERSEY) – The Communications Workers of America (CWA) enthusiastically and unanimously endorses Governor Phil Murphy and Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver for re-election. “I’ve negotiated with CEOs and Governors for more than forty years,” said Dennis Trainor, CWA’s[...]

SF supervisors unanimously approve Larry Yee to serve as Police Commissioner Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco bomb squad responds to suspicious device at Turk and Leavenworth streets in San Franciscos Tenderloin neighborhood on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. The San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved Larry Yee to serve on the citys Police Commission, the body tasked with setting policies for the San Francisco Police Department.Sfpd/San Francisco Police Depar...

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. Women organizing to win: 9to5 yesterday; the PRO Act today March 8, 2021 2:28 PM CDT By Liz Shuler And Karen Nussbaum The original 9 to 5 movement of the 1970s won changes that are still felt today. | Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute If...

Letter Urges Governor to Restore Budget Cuts, Deploy Revenue Shortfall Reserve Dear Governor Kemp, The proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 includes $1.2 billion in continued cuts from FY 2020 state spending to programs and services across Georgia. At a time when millions of families are experiencing greater needs due to the pandemic, this budget would underfund Georgia’s schools, services for Georgians with disabilities, anti-poverty programs, public safety and more. Georgians need more...

By TAPINTO STAFF Carla A. Katz: Former president of C.W.A. Carla A. Katz: Former president of C.W.A. Credits: Cohen, Placitella & Roth, P.C By TAPINTO STAFF March 8, 2021 at 8:00 AM Katz started as an organizer for the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and rose through the ranks to become president of Local 1034 in 1999. Local 1034 was CWAs largest local union in the country with more than 16,000 members in both the public and private sector. Katz served as a Commissioner of t...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. | Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—The almost evenly split Senate is still wrangling over Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is looking ahead to the next one, its chair says. And while Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., didn’t throw out any numbers in her Zoom session with Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen and the organization’s members, she said it will be h...