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Labor News...
May 6, 2008
Put Your Food Donations Out Saturday to Stamp Out Hunger
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Support Nestle Workers in Russia - A full four months after the IUF-affiliated Nestle Perm Workers Union first demanded a substantial wage increase for the almost 1000 workers at the Kitkat candy and confectionery plant, Nestle Russia still denies bona fide wage bargaining. The union is now calling for international protest action in order to highlight the right to wage negotiations as a basic workers right. To learn more and to send a protest message to Nestle, click here. |
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The results of this survey from the AFL-CIO are in. Thank you to all who participated. Click here to get the scoop! |
On Saturday, May 10, the day before Mother's Day, you can help stamp out hunger with a few easy steps: Collect some nonperishable food items. Go to your mailbox and drop them off outside. That's it. Your letter carrier will pick up your donation as part of the 16th annual food drive sponsored by the Letter Carriers (NALC)...
Report Slams U.S. Food Safety System
Gaps in the food safety system include out-of-date laws, poor use of resources, and inconsistencies among agencies protecting food safety, according to the report "Fixing Food Safety: Protecting America's Food From Farm-to-Fork", released by Trust for America's Health...
House votes to require new dust standards
Workers would get new protections from combustible dust explosions like the one that killed 13 people in a Georgia factory in February under legislation passed by the House last month.
The legislation, passed 247-165, is needed because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hasn't moved fast enough to keep workplaces free of large levels of dust that can become fuel for fires and explosions, Democrats said...
April 29, 2008
Supreme Court Ruling on Indiana Voter ID Law the 'Wrong Decision'
In a decision on April 28 that could disenfranchise millions of average Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, on a 6-3 vote, Indiana's voter identification law, the most restrictive law of its kind in the country...
April 28, 2008
A Virtual Rally for a Real-Life Need: Paid Sick Leave
The National Partnership for Women & Families kicked off their first-ever online rally for paid sick leave days on February 28, and it's still going strong. That means you still have a chance to make it to the rally.
April 25, 2008
Airline Workers Demand Place at Table in Northwest-Delta Merger
For the past several years, flight attendants, pilots and other airline workers have sacrificed pay, benefits and working conditions through a long series of bankruptcies, restructurings, mergers, layoffs and threatened liquidations...
April 21, 2008
Women at Greater Risk in Bad Economy
Women are at greater economic risk in today's sinking economy than in past recessions, a new report shows. In the past year, women's real wages fell by 3 percent, compared with half a percentage point for men's wages...
More Layoffs, Fewer Hours on the Job and Teachers Forced to Take Second Jobs
Stuff happens. And lots of stuff happens without the mainstream media picking it up or putting it together in a way that shows the broader picture of what's going on...
Chao 'Crony' Using Diplomatic Cover to Avoid Criminal Probe
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is demanding that Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and the Bush administration waive diplomatic immunity for Mark Knouse, the former executive director of the NAFTA Commission for Labor Cooperation (CLC). Knouse was asked to resign after charges that he improperly used CLC funds (from the taxpayers of the United States, Canada and Mexico) to promote his lobbying business while he worked for the trinational commission.