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Union Leaders Thinking “Outside the Box”
Workshops on subcontracting and nursing homes and community homes Shreveport Local 100’s stewards and leaders organized themselves into three different workshops. One focused on schools and head start...
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Apple Scamming Consumers on Sourcing and Worker Conditions
Tim Cook CEO of Apple and Workers at Foxconn Plants in China New Orleans Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times that Apple was claiming it was finally going to “come clean” on the real conditions of...
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Padding the Numbers: Seedco in NYC and Gutters in New Orleans
Federal agents carry out records from New Orleans Affordable Homeowners Corp. & indictments followed. New Orleans Sometimes it comes down to who you know, not what you can do, and in those...
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Walmart Goes Third-World on USA Warehouse Workers
Walmart garments found at the scene of a fire that killed at least 112 workers at a Bangladesh factory New Orleans Walmart has learned so little from the pathetic dissembling they have mastered...
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Good Jobs Nation, 4C, and DOL Wage Determination Appeals
New Orleans One of the things I missed while on my work-cation in Montana was the emergence of a newish labor-backed workers advocacy organization called Good Jobs Nation. The unions backing this...
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The Co-Employer Fight at McDonald’s Searches for an Employer and a Strategy
protest at McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Park New Orleans More than a thousand fast food workers rallied at a convention center near O’Hare Airport in Chicago in a boisterous, morale boosting...
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Will the IRS Finally Stop Independent Subcontractor Scams?
Houston One of the largest and best known ways that workers are ripped off is known euphemistically as “classification,” meaning whether a worker is classified as an employee or an...
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