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Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy

“Local governments, like cities and counties, have long implemented local policies—including higher minimum wages—to improve economic conditions. Local efforts to raise the wage floor have seen a tremendous upsurge over …

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Sen. Kamala Harris & Rep. Pramila Jayapal Introduce Bill To Protect Domestic Workers

“Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Pramila Jayapal have teamed up with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) to introduce the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in Congress. If passed, the legislation will grant domestic workers, …

BILL: Corporate Human Rights Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Mitigation Act of 2019

This Bill was introduced for discussion in the U.S. Congress on July 11, 2019 https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bills-116pih-corphuman.pdf

Rats have speech rights, too: Unions, protests and balloons

Outside a strip mall on Staten Island, a giant balloon rat lies deflated. I can’t imagine a less auspicious scene for the free-speech fight of the century. But it’s here …

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Guthrie Theater loses NLRB case in #MeToo labor dispute

A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has ruled that the Guthrie Theater violated federal labor law in 2017 by downgrading the performance review of Molly Diers, a carpenter then working in …

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Suit alleging US chocolate makers collaborated in slave labor proceeds

A federal appeals court in San Francisco reaffirmed its ruling Friday that youngsters on cocoa plantations in Africa can sue U.S. chocolate makers for allegedly collaborating in slave labor. But …

CTM: van bien los amparos contra la reforma laboral

Los 400 amparos que solicitó la Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM) van avanzando, y poco a poco, según la fecha de audiencia, han logrado una suspensión provisional que, si …

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GUTHRIE THEATER and INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 13

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that the Guthrie Theater violated federal labor law in 2017 by downgrading the performance review of Molly Diers, a carpenter then working in the …

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Doe v Nestle

The panel filed (1) an order amending its opinion, denying a petition for panel rehearing, and denying on behalf of the court a petition for rehearing en banc; and (2) …

Trabajadores H-2B demandan al Departamento de Trabajo de EU sobre sueldos

Jorge, Joel, Hector, Leonardo e Hilario son un grupo de trabajadores con visa H-2B que esperan una resolución a una larga lucha sobre los sueldos que se les deben a …

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