…White House estimates that the order could affect $262 billion in federal construction contracting, based on figures for the 2021 fiscal year, and improve job quality for the nearly 200,000…
…deaths of 100,306 people in the U.S. between April 2020 and April 2021. That’s a nearly 30-percent increase in fatalities over the year prior. Use of the biggest killers —…
…Population Survey. That is large enough to be accurate nationally, but like political polls, less reliable at the state level. The 2021 survey found that 4.7% of Texas workers are…
WASHINGTON—Union membership in the United States fell to 10.3% of the workforce in 2021, according to statistics released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Jan. 20. The union share…
…Public Services Union, said in a statement. The January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters threatening to kill Congressmembers who voted to certify President Joseph Biden’s…
New York, NY – In 2021, increasing numbers of workers discovered their post-Covid pandemic power by engaging in work stoppages and unionization drives across the nation. It’s taking lots of…
…some of the strongest leaders on organizing committees leading campaigns. In November 2021, staff at the Florence Project, a large nonprofit in Arizona providing legal support to migrants at the…
…the 3.5-hour minimum, says Short, “but on the low end, it’s very low.” One big difference, he explains, is that, according to CMS data from the second quarter of 2021,…
…health-care workers on June 21, 2021, but did not make it permanent, and announced on Dec. 27 that it planned to rescind it. “COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased nearly sixfold in…
…2021 was the year of the strike and great strides have been made in the labor community. Currently, labor unions are poised to play a key role in a wide…
