Todays UAW represents about 415,000 members with 70,000 in colleges and related jobs. The union’s organizing is no longer mainly in automotive factories but includes academia and other industries. UAW…
…cabin cleaners working for subcontractors for minimum wage to adjunct college professors, who after 20 years of schooling can net less than $15 an hour and often don’t know if…
…social safety net operates on an outdated expectation that a worker is an employee of a company. That may have been the norm 30 years ago, but the new economy…
…true for our democracy. When we shine the light on our principles, most notably those found in our constitution, we can rest easy, for they are lofty, and in my…
…person in the world, with a net worth of more than $70 billion. Read more SONOMA, Calif.—Hundreds of the men and women risking their lives to battle the massive, fast-moving…
…Times has noted (Dealbook, Oct. 29, 2014 and May 20, 2015; Business Day Feb. 19, 2015) that large companies can become recidivist violators of the law when their “culture prioritizes…
…“Serious efforts to decarbonize the Canadian economy will create significant opportunities for those in construction trades,” said the report, “Jobs for Tomorrow—Canada’s Building Trades and Net Zero Emissions,” released Aug….
August 23, 2016 By Joe Maniscalco Members of the Building Trades salute Governor Cuomo Outside the AFL-CIO Convention. New York, NY – Governor Andrew Cuomo told delegates at the 33rd…
…get more and more of it, the profit way will be finished.” I urge union officials across the nation to read this issue and have others know about it. http://www.aestheticrealism.net/tro/the-fight-in-each-of-us-and-in-economics.html…
…reduce the high cost of diabetes. Sources: ABC News; Disturbing Diabetes Forecast Linked to Obesity; http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diabetes/cdc-predicts-dramatic-increase-diabetes/story?id=11946076 Centers for Disease Control http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111105/More-than-half-of-all-Americans-will-have-diabetes-by-2020.aspx American Diabetes Association; Statistics About Diabetes; http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/?loc=db-slabnav American Diabetes…
