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Newark Advocate Earthworks column missed the mark Dr. Tim Jordan’s guest column in the Advocate’s April 25 edition twice refers to those that developed the city and built Newark’s infrastructure as “racist and ignorant.” This seems to me to be both ignorant and racist. The early settlers to this area found the earthworks abandoned. The local Native Americans were not able to offer any information as to their origin or purpose. The settlers removed the structures that were in the wa...

Fifty years ago on April 28, Workers Memorial Day, the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect, promising every worker the right to a safe job. The law was won because of the tireless efforts of the labor movement, which organized for safer working conditions and demanded government action. Unions and our allies have fought hard to make that promise a reality—winning protections that have made jobs safer and saved lives. But our work is not done. Each year, thousands of workers ar...

On Workers’ Memorial Day, we mourn those who paid the price for their dedication | Opinion Posted Apr 28, 2021 Last year, 244 workers in New Jersey suffered fatal job-related injuries, with 176 of them attributed to COVID-19. The overall number is 3.3 times the 74 deaths OSHA reported in 2019 in New Jersey. Charles Wowkanech, president of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, says its time for the best interests of working families to be written into federal law and championed by the Biden administr...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) turned 50 in December 2020, the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) issued “ CPR has expressed optimism recently that the new political climate in Washington, D.C. will make reality this and other goals. Currently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has the sole right to pursue claims under the OSH Act through citations and civil penalties. OSHA relies, in par...

Hollywood Unions Lobby for Tax Incentive to Promote Diverse Hiring in the Industry AFL-CIO and Hollywood labor are also pushing for bills that protect bargaining to help reduce the wage gapJeremy Fuster | February 11, 2021 @ 3:18 PM Last Updated: February 11, 2021 @ 5:09 PM iStock/Getty Images The Department for Professional Employees, a coalition of Hollywood labor unions affiliated with AFL-CIO, announced on Thursday a new policy agenda to lobby for bills that will promote diver...

Hollywood Unions Join AFL-CIO Push for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Public Policy Agenda Cynthia Littleton, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Hollywood’s major unions have signed on with the AFL-CIO-affiliated push to advance public policy initiatives involving diversity, equity and inclusion issues. The broad goals of the campaign spearheaded by the Department for Professional Employees (DPE), a coalition of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO, is to strengthen collective bargaining and co...

Large segments of what is dubbed the informal economy are perfectly legal in occupational terms.

news Cabinet Decisions Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Relief on tariff for Mongolia under Asia Pacific Trade Accord (APTA) Mongolia has been officially appointed a stakeholder of the Asia Pacific Trade Accord (APTA) in which Sri Lanka, too, has been a partner State on September 29, 2020. Sri Lanka, therefore, has to exchange tariff reliefs mutually with Mongolia. Mongolia, too, is qualified for obtaining the relief granted by Sri Lanka under the accord to the countries such as B...

The Aspen Times Attorneys for the Aspen Daily News in a recent court filing said the publication fairly compensated a photographer who it also accused of stealing company property. The newspaper on Dec. 29 issued its formal response to ex-photographer Craig Turpin’s federal lawsuit accusing Daily News management of telling employees to collect unemployment while still working. As well, the media outlet filed counterclaims against Turpin saying he committed civil theft by not returning a compa...

Wed December 30, 2020 - National Edition #1 Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT The new administration will likely direct OSHA to adopt an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for workplaces to protect employees from COVID-19. The construction industry could be in for a bumpy ride as the U.S. economy recovers from the coronavirus and the recession tied to it. Dodge Data & Analytics calls for a 4 percent regain in 2021, after a 14 percent loss this year. Will a new administration, new leaders and...