Joseph Callihan News Today

Citing a religious exemption, Edward Waters University - a private, historically Black school in Jacksonville - has shut down its faculty union. The news came weeks after the university announced the inaugural leader of its A. Philip Randolph Institute, named after a prominent African American labor leader who led a successful campaign in 1925 to organize a union of Pullman workers and helped lead the 1963 March on Washington. ...

Orange County Convention Center food-service workers have authorized a strike, and the window for that action opens today. Members of Unite Here Local 737 voted on November 21 to authorize a strike any time after their contract with the French food service provider Sodexo expired on Wednesday. The vote in favor of the strike authorization was 235 to zero, and Local 737 President Jeremy Haicken said the issues are clear. ...

Illinois voters approved a "Workers Rights Amendment" to the state constitution which broadens the state workforces rights to collective bargaining. The Nov. 8 ballot initiative, passed by 58% of Illinois voters, is a broadly worded expansion of the collective bargaining process extending beyond traditional terms and conditions of employment. ...

Women of color working in health care are the most likely to lose out on wages they have earned because employers fail to pay what they owe, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Investigations have found 80% of violations affect home-care aides, nursing aides and licensed practical nurses, especially women working in Black, Hispanic and Asian communities. ...

Women of color working in health care are the most likely to lose out on wages they have earned because employers fail to pay what they owe, according to the

Jubilee Day commemorates the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln.