The child care industry and the workers in it—overwhelmingly women, many of them women of color—have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Really hard.… Read More »COVID-19 has the child care industry in dire crisis, but there are two big reasons for hope
The Labor Department’s independent watchdog recommended that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration consider issuing Covid-19-specific safety rules employers would be required to follow, saying… Read More »Labor watchdog backs calls for binding Covid-19 workplace safety standard, slams Trump’s policy
Democrats, Republicans and corporate America are coalescing behind a federal paid leave policy for the first time in the U.S., one of few rich nations… Read More »‘Can we find a deal?’: Coronavirus sparks debate over paid leave
Despite Centers for Disease Control recommendations, a few states with large farmworker populations have not prioritized Covid-19 vaccinations for farmworkers. Because farmworkers risk Covid-19 exposure in the course of… Read More »Texas and Florida, Defying CDC Guidance, Aren’t Prioritizing Vaccination of Farmworkers
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service… Read More »Service + Solidarity Spotlight: National Nurses United Leads Coalition to Urge CDC to Acknowledge COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission
In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect Joe Biden appears to have made a… Read More »Joe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education
“Grocery workers say they can’t get coronavirus vaccines, even as they help distribute them,” the Washington Post headline reads. But as the story makes clear, grocery workers don’t… Read More »Grocery workers, heroes of the pandemic, left out on vaccinations, this week in the war on workers
Including a minimum wage increase in a bill passing the Senate under budget reconciliation got a procedural boost on Monday. The Congressional Budget Office responded… Read More »‘Protect us, respect us, and pay us,’ Rev. Barber says of the necessity for a $15 minimum wage
Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Senate Democrat overseeing unemployment issues, is calling on Congress to give the Labor Department $500 million to shore up the… Read More »Democrats call for UI system fix as millions face another lapse in benefits
Union-busters who traveled from other states to fight a union organizing drive at a Maine hospital got an extra-special bonus from hospital management: COVID-19 vaccinations. State… Read More »Maine hospital gave scarce COVID-19 vaccinations to out-of-state consultants there to bust a union