WASHINGTON—Federal workers furloughed during the three-day shutdown of the government will get paid for the work time they lost, under the short-term continuing-appropriations resolution signed by President Donald Trump Jan.
WASHINGTON—Anger at a Trump administration proposal to make tips the property of employers intensified on Feb. 1, after Bloomberg News reported that the Department of Labor had suppressed an in-house
NEW WESTMINSTER, Canada – Sobeys has begun an illegal lockout of more than 600 Safeway workers. The complaint was filed by UFCW 1518. The complaint comes in the wake of Sobeys’
New York, NY – For months, Charter/Spectrum — the second-largest cable provider in the country — has touted a so-called “wage-rich package” replete with “22 to 55-percent” pay increases, “excellent
(CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK) – For three days this week, just-UnionizedEmployees of the Wendt Corporation, a suburban manufacturer of scrap recycling machinery, will hold lunchtime rallies outside the company’s Cheektowaga plant
New York, NY – Effective January 1st, 2018, all eligible UNITE HERE workers with benefits through UNITE HERE HEALTH now have inclusive transgender health benefits, including coverage of gender confirmation surgery,
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—When Las Vegas’s Culinary Union begins contract talks with casino-resort operators next month, it will ask them to give each of the more than 14,000 housekeepers it represents
TORONTO, Ontario—More than 50 demonstrations took place from Vancouver to Halifax Jan. 19, urging Tim Hortons’ franchisees to rescind cutbacks they made after Ontario raised its minimum wage Jan. 1.
NEW YORK— New York City is investing $200 million to replace boilers and upgrade heating systems at 20 NYCHA developments. This funding will go towards replacing outdated boilers, and modernizing heating system controls and
SEATTLE, Wash.—A proposal by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Service Employees International Union Local 775 President David Rolf, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer to create portable benefits for gig-economy workers has
