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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...

Senate HELP Subcommittee assignments The Senate has yet to set the final vote on  Marty Walsh’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Labor. On Friday, March 5, the White House announced the following appointments: Pronita Gupta joins the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Labor and Workers. She more recently served as director of job quality for the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).  Prior to joining CLASP, she served as the deputy director of the Women’s Bure...

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes I am sure it is of no surprise to you, but Congress is on a campaign to control every aspect of our lives. It is mostly Democrat-driven, but we have Republicans on board with this too. It is so much easier to tell people what to do, than to protect people’s right to live as they choose, and craft legislation that benefits this. Whether through legislation or the courts, lawmakers are leaving no stone unturned that would allow your and my freedoms to remain intact. T...

POLITICO Inside Joe Biden’s decision to dive into the Amazon union drive The quasi-endorsement was weeks in the making, spurring on by private talks with labor leaders and Democratic officials. President Joe Biden’s endorsement of the right of workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama to unionize was the culmination of weeks of private talks. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Updated: Link Copied Joe Biden’s endorsement of the right of workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama to unionize was...

House Dems Launch Full Court Press on Background Checks Ammoland Inc. Posted on House Democrats are launching a full court press on Background Checks. U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- House Democrats, aided by three Republicans, on Tuesday announced the introduction of H.R. 8, the so-called “Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021,”  confirming reports from a day earlier that the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi would soon be launching a full-court press on gun control. ...

Share: Legislation that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters asserts will make collective bargaining more fair at XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) and other trucking companies has the potential to gain traction in the current Congress – and it has the full support of President Joe Biden. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was introduced in February and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he plans to take it up for consideration next week. The bill was approved by the Ho...

Darryl Richardson was delighted when he landed a job as a “picker” at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’m going to work for Amazon, work for the richest man around,” he said. “I thought it would be a nice facility that would treat you right.” Richardson, a sturdily built 51-year-old with a short, charcoal beard, took a job at the gargantuan warehouse after the auto parts plant where he worked for nine years closed....

ProAct Safety President to Challenge Dangerous Safety Perceptions at Iowa Safety Conference PRWeb FacebookTwitterEmail THE WOODLANDS, Texas (PRWEB) February 23, 2021 Shawn M. Galloway, President and COO of ProAct Safety, will speak at the 2021 East Central Iowa Safety and Health Conference hosted by Kirkwood Community College on 25 February at 7:30am CST. Challenging and Changing the Five Dangerous Safety Perceptions Positive perceptions about safety are critical to safety excellence; they har...

The pandemic has eroded women’s gains in the labor force. Now, a new pro-labor bill threatens women’s advancement even further. If Washington is serious...

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 On February 4, 2021, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021. The PRO Act is supported by key members of the Senate’s leadership, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The PRO Act would be the most significant labor law reform in the United States since the World War II-era Taft-Hartley Act and the 1935 Wagner Act, which created the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) and first granted private...