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Organizations plan events for May Day as unions, business groups clash over the PRO Act proposal in Congress.

KVRR Local News Union leaders are calling on Congress to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act April 28, 2021 FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Leaders from the Northern Plains United Labor Council are speaking out about the fight for safer jobs on this Workers’ Memorial Day. Eighteen names accompanied by flowers sat side-by-side inside the Fargo-Moorhead Labor Temple Wednesday afternoon. They’re North Dakota workers who were killed on the job last year, two of which had contracted the coronavirus. “I’m here every year, but this year in particular is really hard,” said Dan Jackson of O...

The family of a truckie who crashed while high on ice has been awarded a payout of $500,000 after his drug use was ruled to be in the “course of his employment”.

Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers' Memorial Day. These annual events raise awareness around work-related safety and health...

York city walls light up in memory of workers lost to pandemic YORK's city walls will light up in memory of key workers lost to the pandemic today amid calls for "answers". From Hull or Leeds to Bradford, town halls across the region will glow purple to mark International Workers Memorial Day. A further national minute of silence will be held at midday to pay tribute to all working people who have died due to work in the past year. It comes as the Trades Union Congress (TUC) calls on Yorkshire's MPs to support an immediate public inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemi...