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A new website run by labor-rights group Working America is making it easier than ever for employees from almost any industry to organize and improve their workplaces. FixMyJob.com offers an interactive online tutorial for workers who are “feeling overworked, underpaid, unsafe, or disrespected by [their] boss.” Users can create a free personal account that
Read moreIAM Local Lodge 99 member Spencer Smirl, left, holds the IAM flag with another participant of the Fiennes Antarctic crossing expedition. The six-month journey will go from Crown Bay on the continent’s east shore to the South Pole and then to Ross Island on the continent’s south shore. IAM Local Lodge 99 member Spencer Smirl
Read moreGOP lawmakers around the country have embarked on a campaign to ban all bills requiring mandatory paid sick leave for all workers. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) recently signed the so-called “preemption” bill, blocking a proposed sick-leave ballot initiative currently being considered in Orange County – and any future county, for that matter. The Sunshine
Read moreAugust 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the setting of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In commemoration of this anniversary, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has launched a new project, The Unfinished March that assesses the unmet goals of the march. Consisting
Read moreLabor unions, activists and students have declared Saturday, June 29, 2013, an International Day of Action to End Deathtraps. Participants will take action at Gap and Wal-Mart stores – picketing and handing out flyers – to force the companies to take responsibility for the safety of their workers, specifically in Bangladesh’s garment industry, the second-largest
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