With Labor Rights Week underway through Friday, an initiative between many has begun to spread awareness that all workers in the U.S. are entitled to a safe and fair work environment
Whitney Hodgin
Dodge City Globe
The Méxican Consulate of Kansas City (ConsulMexKan) visited Dodge City Public Library Aug. 28 to launch the 15th annual Labor
Suppliers of General Motors, Opel, Continental, Bosch, Hella, Magna, and Walmart have repaid over $2.5 million to employees, but still fall short of full reimbursements.
i think needs to happen is we need to have some regulation and recognize that people that are in unscripted shows are actually workers. you're working to make money for somebody else and that happens to be a jiepght production company or streaming service like netflix and mine and i believe that somehow they have escaped labor practices and labor laws over the years. and there is no representation like there is for scripted cast members, or writers as we're seeing with the strikes with the wga and sag-aftra right now i think change needs to come from all of us and we need to get basic recognition of worker and labor rights in the industry immediately. kat: quickly what about the love life now are you single? >> i'm still single. yes. [laughter] been quite busy. kat: okay all right well you know that's interesting first time i've heard that i don't know how well i would do plenty of booze camera hooked up to me and i don't know what time it is so -- >> i don't know who would thrive in that situation.
i think needs to happen is we need to have some regulation and recognize that people that are in unscripted shows are actually workers. you're working to make money for somebody else and that happens to be a jiepght production company or streaming service like netflix and mine and i believe that somehow they have escaped labor practices and labor laws over the years. and there is no representation like there is for scripted cast members, or writers as we're seeing with the strikes with the wga and sag-aftra right now i think change needs to come from all of us and we need to get basic recognition of worker and labor rights in the industry immediately. kat: quickly what about the love life now are you single? >> i'm still single. yes. [laughter] been quite busy. kat: okay all right well you know that's interesting first time i've heard that i don't know how well i would do plenty of booze camera hooked up to me and i don't know what time it is so -- >> i don't know who would thrive in that situation.
The world's second-biggest fashion retailer, H&M, has decided to gradually stop sourcing from Myanmar, it told Reuters on Thursday, as reports of labour abuses in the country's garment factories increase.
One of Northwestern’s core values is social justice, a principle built upon a long history of student activism. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, in which over 100 students participated in a sit-in protesting discriminatory policies against and a lack of resources for Black students. Since then, NU students have...
think he can take away of going into 2024? >> alicia thanks so much for having in covering ohio. we were excited about the outcome on tuesday night and, quite simply what it carabao is at a high and scare about the democracy. at the end of the day, the like people all across the country, we want fair elections and we want fair choices on important issues, and on this one in particular like abortion, but in everything ranging from labor rights to voting rights to redistricting which are all at stake in ohio, both in this election last tuesday next last tuesday but in months and weeks ahead. we were surprised and happy about the outcome and i think we will see forward moving forward in ohio, is the wing map that you saw well as we go into 2024 and beyond. >> one of the things i am struck by when you look at a variety of states that have considered referendums pieces of legislation, kansas, kentucky, it may not be people
they are not acting in our best interest. what we have was really a pan partisan movement of republicans, democrats, independents, the libertarians. civic organizations, first responders, nurses. so many different groups of people coming together to defend our freedoms here in ohio so it is a really exciting evening. >> yes by the way, those images here are raleigh for the no side that was opposing this and they are sort of holding the victory party again. we don't have a call from the adp, columbus this batch of staff called in. david, you and i've talked about this and the sort of transparent bad faith play in the gerrymandering republic legislature shutting this onto the ballot box hoping to forestall and change a threshold for that fall vote on abortion rights. what is your take away from what we are seeing unfold here? >> well obviously it didn't work in the people saw through it. ohioans have done this a few times before, there was an attack 11 years ago or so on labor rights, same thing. i think that those sides were
responders, nurses. so many different groups of people coming together to defend our freedoms here in ohio so it is a really exciting evening. >> yes by the way, those images here are raleigh for the no side that was opposing this and they are sort of holding the victory party again. we don't have a call from the adp, columbus this batch of staff called in. david, you and i've talked about this and the sort of transparent bad faith play in the gerrymandering republic legislature shutting this onto the ballot box hoping to forestall and change a threshold for that fall vote on abortion rights. what is your take away from what we are seeing unfold here? >> well obviously it didn't work in the people saw through it. ohioans have done this a few times before, there was an attack 11 years ago or so on labor rights, same thing. i think that those sides were very organized, it crossed every partisan divide and the yes side of things, in the end they relate to the broader point they cannot really hide the fact that in the end it was all about abortion and