Alexia Fernandez Campbell, The Center for Public Integrity Alexia Fernandez Campbell, The Center for Public Integrity
Nancy Campos’ back ached as she loaded more than 100 Amazon packages onto her truck. The 59-year-old grandmother, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, had worked 13 days in a row without a lunch break, and now she was delivering on the Martin Luther King Jr.
China spells out how excessive overtime culture is illegal | Economy | sentinelsource.com
China has issued its most comprehensive warning yet against the excessive-work culture that pervades the country's largest corporations, using real and richly detailed court disputes to address a growing backlash against the punishing demands of the private sector.
The Supreme People's Court and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security published a lengthy essay Friday about labor violations and unreasonable overtime, labeled "996" because of the common practice of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Provisions Easing Firefighter Shift Trades and Equalizing Locality Pay Make It Into Major Defense
During the marathon committee meeting, lawmakers approved adding a provision, introduced by Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., that would ensure that locality pay for General Schedule and blue-collar Federal Wage System employees is calculated using the same map of locality pay areas.
Devising policy to protect Oregon's farmworkers from everchanging climate-related risks, COVID -
Growing crops is already a field with a lot of inherent risks. Add Oregon's increasing heat waves and wildfire smoke, as well as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it's obvious farmworkers are on the front line in multiple ways.
According to the Oregon Farm Bureau, the state's agriculture industry brings in over $5 billion a year for things like hazelnuts, Christmas trees and wine grapes. The income wouldn't be possible without an estimated 174,000 farmworkers and their families, most of them Latino.
Commentary: Jim Martin: Update Labor Day to honor all American workers
The whole idea is to highlight the labor movement, its sacrifices and achievements, and how much workers in many fields have contributed to the American Dream.
Today, those concepts are lucky to get a mention, as people focus more on the start of the new academic year, barbecues and the imminent end of summer. Labor Day has become a festival of consumerism in the United States, one of the biggest sales days of the year.
Mondelez International, Nabisco maker faces weeks-long strikes | wgrz.com
"We're not asking for a lot," one worker at a plant in Richmond, Virginia said. "We just want a fair contract," he told Yahoo! Finance .
His name: Steven James. He said he's worked as a machine operator at a plant in Richmond, Virginia for two decades making Oreos, Chips Ahoy! and other household snack names.
Opinion | Let's Honor the True Spirit of Labor Day - The New York Times
In the late summer of 1921, an epic but surprisingly little-known confrontation took place between the forces of labor and capital. The battle unfolded not in one of the great industrial cities but in the rural coal country of southern West Virginia.
A veritable proletarian army of about 10,000 miners faced a better-armed force of more than 2,000 men — law enforcement officers and others — equipped with high-powered rifles, machine guns and company-provided private planes that dropped shrapnel bombs on union headquarters.
What Strikes at Frito-Lay and Nabisco Factories Could Mean for Workers
Citing increased "consumer consciousness" in support of the Frito-Lay workers and a favorable job market that is finally driving up wages for workers, Probst predicted that the Topeka strike would not be the last worker action to grab headlines.
"Employees have probably more strength than they've had in a number of years," Probst explained, and more employees were likely to flex their muscles in the months to come.
State of the unions: Unions represent tens of thousands of Quad-Cities workers, though numbers
Iron workers with Rock Island-based Local 111 have spent more than a year helping to build the new Interstate 74 bridge between Bettendorf and Moline.
Brian Atkins, business manager for Iron Workers Local 111, the union constructing the new Interstate 74 bridge, is trying to work directly with city councils to promote qualified local unionized workers over inexperienced, less expensive labor.
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