🌎 Discussion: Labor, Unions, and Workers' Rights

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Number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rises to 242,000, highest level in 3 months

Applications for U.S. jobless benefits rose to a three-month high last week but remained within the same healthy range of the past three years.

apnews.com

 

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Number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rises to 242,000, highest level in 3 months

Applications for U.S. jobless benefits rose to a three-month high last week but remained within the same healthy range of the past three years.

apnews.com

Seems to me that the federal job cuts should have caused this number to skyrocket.

 

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The Trump Administration Has Made 36 Million Workers Newly Vulnerable to Discrimination and Harassment

The Trump administration has put more than 36 million private sector workers at risk of unchecked discrimination and harassment, with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars now potentially pouring into discriminatory workplaces.

www.americanprogress.org

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday

The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.

www.nytimes.com

"I recommend being in the office at least every weekday," he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity" in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google's lineup of A.I. models and apps.

 

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Trump Sticks It To Unions By Tapping Anti-Union Advocate To Run Labor Agency

Elisabeth Messenger, former CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment, would be tasked with making sure anti-union consultants disclose their work.

www.huffpost.com

 

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And when workers get hurt, the insurance companies will deny their claims. What a wonderful world!

 

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[Lily Adler]

And when workers get hurt, the insurance companies will deny their claims. What a wonderful world!

When POTUS is trying to get rid of OSHA.

 

[blueharvest]

Unions Ready for 'Righteous Fight' as Sanders, Dems Reintroduce PRO Act | Common Dreams

Sanders and Scott reintroduced the PRO Act to strengthen workers' rights amid opposition from billionaires and corporations.

www.commondreams.org

 

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[DJ Kornphlake]

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Homeland Security ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections

A union representing Transportation Security Administration workers calls the Department of Homeland Security's decision to end the collective bargaining agreement with them an “unprovoked attack.”

apnews.com

 

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[Lily Adler]

 

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