Weekly Digest – February 10, 2015
…his back slipping on ice as he entered the job site was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits even though he hadn’t clocked in yet. Ronnie Nabors, an ironworker in Blytheville,…
…his back slipping on ice as he entered the job site was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits even though he hadn’t clocked in yet. Ronnie Nabors, an ironworker in Blytheville,…
…workers are still on the job, but the concrete subcontractor told him the developer shut down the site because the weather was too cold for the concrete to cure properly….
…annual recertification elections. Berman, CEO of the anti-labor propaganda site the Center for Union Facts, told an energy-industry confab in June that he wakes up every morning trying “to figure…
…where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan was treated. NNU members at other hospitals said the only training they’d gotten was fact sheets, the CDC Web site, or less than 10 minutes…
…consider the federation’s position “pro-amnesty.” The Border Patrol Council, which is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, recently deleted its AFL-CIO affiliation from its Web site. Read more…
…Local 737 President Jeremy Cruz-Haiken, which together with Local 362 represents more than half of Disney World’s 66,000 “cast members.” The two unions’ current contract expires March 29. AFT Website…
…per hour he got when he started eight years ago. Read more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/low-wage-workers_n_4674985.html NYSUT Board of Directors OKs ‘No Confidence’ Vote for Commissioner The New York State United Teachers Union’s board…
…as well as everybody else.” Labor Department Probes Florida’s Unemployment Web Site U.S. Department of Labor officials will travel to Florida to investigate the state’s “CONNECT” Web site for providing…
…that they couldn’t take Thanksgiving off “without accruing a point or a demerit on our record.” Did IT Outsourcing Cause Obamacare Website Snafu? The problems with the Affordable Care Act’s…
…20 unions, picked Pottsville because it’s the site of the brewery owned by billionaire Dick Yuengling, who last summer said Pennsylvania would attract more business if it banned union shops….