Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, April 2021
At the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program, and for our many colleagues and partners, the ongoing and intertwined health, economic, and racial justice crises bring new urgency to our work to improve access to quality jobs, options to participate in business ownership, and the freedom to pursue economic opportunity. Below we share our monthly newsletter with highlights of recent work. As always, we welcome your feedback, thoughts, and partnership in advancing inclusive opportunity and an economy in which we all can thrive. Click here to subscribe.
Race and Gender Wealth Equity and the Role of Employee Share Ownership
Berlin police expect violent demonstrations on 1 May berliner-zeitung.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berliner-zeitung.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Supermarket employees in New York get vaccinated
Is it legal?
National health authorities in both Germany and the US have recommended prioritizing vaccinating grocery store workers, though neither country requires these employees to get the jab. Offering financial incentives could encourage many employees to get vaccinated, but some say it would unfairly disadvantage people who choose not to. Germany, in particular, has along history of vaccine skepticism.
Barring a law that requires vaccination, employers in Germany cannot require their workforce to get vaccinated, international law firm Simmons & Simmons wrote on its website. Workplaces like hospitals and nursing homes are a possible exception.
Frankfurt Airport ground workers’ struggle at the crossroads
With their courageous fight against the WISAG corporation, the ground workers at Frankfurt Airport have already achieved something important: They have torn the mask off the media, the establishment parties, and the Verdi trade union and revealed social conditions as they are.
The politicians and union officials, who endlessly prattle about “social partnership” and “social market economy,” have stabbed the sacked workers in the back and thrown their weight behind the WISAG corporation, which is unscrupulously using the coronavirus pandemic to lay off qualified employees and replace them with poorly paid temporary workers, who are subject to be sacked at any time.
Macron s pandemic speech and the politics of social murder - World Socialist Web Site wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.