Business World Turned on head…by a POSTER?
Yesterday the NLRB issued a ruling requiring that employers post an 11×17 poster informing employees of their rights under the NLRA. Mike Hall, posting on the AFL-CIO blog noted: ”The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) calls it an ‘unprecedented overreach of its authority… a punitive new rule…a new low…a trap for millions of businesses.’ …………..It’s just a [...]
J-1 Visa Program: Human Trafficking by any other name
Labor Notes recently covered the walkout by J-1 “guestworkers” at the Hershey plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania on August 17, 2011. Instead of hiring local Pennsylvanians in need of work at living wages, Hershey brought over hundreds of foreign students to work in their modern version of the company town, where their paychecks were deducted at [...]
Workers Comp “Reform” part of a coordinated campaign by business interests to destroy all employee rights
An article at Stateline.org outlines how many states have sought to reduce workers benefits under their respective workers comp acts. EEA will continue to post articles from around the country on this blog showing that business interests have coordinated their efforts to publish misleading “statistics” which “prove” that workers compensation demands “reform.” In fact, banks are hoarding [...]
While state governments go broke and attack employee pensions and workers’ rights, the federal goverment turns a blind eye to Wall Street stealing TRILLIONS…
Matt Tiabbi of Rolling Stone reports on a whistle-blower claiming that over the past two decades, the SEC has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, turning the other way while financial criminals commit the crimes the SEC is supposed to stop. Read the Full Article here.
Picket the Verizon store at 500 N. Michigan Ave in support of Verizon Employees!
The Verizon strike on the East Coast is going strong, despite the company’s threat to cancel the workers’ health insurance effective August 31st. Solidarity picket lines at Verizon Wireless stores have been turning away customers and building up support for the union. The Chicago Federation of Labor is organizing a picket line at the Verizon store [...]
Illinois: A great place to do business AND protect workers rights? YES!!! Though, that’s not what the Chamber of Commerce would have you believe.
A new report, Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Coverage and Costs, 2009, is the fourteenth in the series which provides the only comprehensive data on workers’ compensation benefits for the nation, the states, the District of Columbia, and federal programs. Based on the figures in this comprehensive report businesses paid out a total of $73.9 billion to [...]
Washington fiddles as children continue to die while working.
Two fourteen year old girls, yes FOURTEEN, were electrocuted in Sterling, Illinois while detassling corn in a field leased to agricultural giant Monsanto. Article here. In Mount Carroll last summer, two boys aged 14 and 19 drowned in a grain elevator. Now, two Oklahoma teens are in critical condition after becoming trapped in a grain augur [...]
Jobs Jobs Jobs
A recent Washinton Post poll highlights voters disgust with Washington’s inability to focus on the central issue facing America today, JOBS. Full article can be found here
A Jobs Agenda from the Obama Administration? Finally. Maybe.
“By a large margin, Americans have told pollsters that job creation is more important than budget cuts. Yet Republican leaders are wedded to austerity and appear to think that high unemployment will hurt President Obama politically more than it will hurt them, so they will likely resist efforts to create jobs, no matter how great [...]
Manufacturing jobs returning to US as China’s wages rise
“Wages for China’s factory workers certainly aren’t going to rise to U.S. levels soon. [Boston Consulting Group] estimates they will be 17 percent of the projected U.S. manufacturing average—$26 an hour for wages and benefits—by 2015. But because American workers have higher productivity, and since rising fuel prices are making it even more expensive to ship [...]