Teamsters president says Amazon workers deserve a union
On this pandemic Black Friday, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa says that workers fighting for better wages and more rights is the only way to counteract the rise of underpaid, dangerous jobs at Amazon and other companies that we are buying from today.
Unions will concentrate their upcoming organizing activity as safety issues and accuse companies as being unconcerned with safety precautions during the Covid-19 pandemic for years to come. Workers deserve and have an absolute right to be safe in their workplace, but most companies take this pandemic and general safety concerns very seriously. Union organizing activity most effective are ones where the concentration is based on safety issues and personal respect from management, these issues elicit the most emotion and outrage from employees which tend to block out attempts to educate them about unions. A breakdown of communications is the biggest cause of union organizing activity and anger and frustration are the fuel that propels it.
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What Organized Labor Wants From Biden
After years of fiery activism, unions won’t be satisfied with returning to the pre-Trump status quo.
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Detroit’s new Jeep assembly plant manager opens up about his job
Michael Brieda, who previously managed Windsor Assembly Plant, is leading the launch of Fiat Chrysler’s new Detroit Jeep plant.
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Youngstown State Faculty on Strike Over Contract
Youngstown State University’s faculty union went on strike Monday over contract negotiations. The institution is on its fall break, so classes won’t be affected until they resume Wednesday, should the strike continue.
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Proposed Rule Would Limit Back Pay for Federal Workers
Federal employees would not be able to collect back pay and attorney fees for certain unjustified personnel actions under an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed rule.
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Amazon: More than 19,000 employees have tested positive for coronvirus
More than 19,000 front-line Amazon employees have tested positive or been presumed positive for the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, the company said last week. The data — the first of its kind released by Amazon — included all Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the U.S. employed between March 1 and Sept. 19, a total of 1,372,000 workers. It comes months after many Amazon employees spoke out abou
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Ricardo Torres posted on LinkedIn
Do you have a firewall between the unions and your employees? In other words, are your employees comfortable coming to work in 2020? Do they fee
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Fausone Bohn, LLP posted on LinkedIn
Bob Carroll, Executive VP at Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants, sits down with Attorney Brandon Grysko to discuss situations where many busines
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Bob Carroll, Executive VP at Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants, sits down with Attorney Brandon Grysko to discuss situations where many business owner’s may find themselves in the longer the global health pandemic lasts.
Bob details how Unions capitalize on an owner’s missteps to appeal to employees, organize, and gain a foothold on the business.
‘Everyone tested positive’: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California’s heartland | US news | The Guardian
The virus is surging in the Central Valley, where hundreds of thousands labor in the food industry. Workers say companies did little to prevent the spread
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