by James Parks In a decision today that could disenfranchise millions of average Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, on a 6–3 vote, Indiana’s voter identification law, the most restrictive law of its kind in the country. In his dissent, Justice David Souter echoed what critics of the law have said all along: Indiana’s voter ID […]
Global Unions Condemn Murders of Honduran Union Leaders
– by James Parks The global union movemnent is strongly protesting the murder of Rosa Altagracia Fuentes, the general secretary of the Workers’ Confederation of Honduras (CTH), trade union leader Virginia García de Sánchez and motorcyclist Juan Bautista Gálvez. The three were killed early morning on April 24 on the highway between El Progreso and San Pedro Sula […]
Airline Workers Demand Place at Table in Northwest-Delta Merger
– by James Parks For the past several years, flight attendants, pilots and other airline workers have sacrificed pay, benefits and working conditions through a long series of bankruptcies, restructurings, mergers, layoffs and threatened liquidations. And on Thursday, airline unions told Congress workers must have a voice at the table when the biggest merger in the industry […]
‘Death on the Job’ Report: More Workers Killed, Fewer Employer Penalties
by Mike Hall More workers are being killed on the job, but employers who are found to have violated federal safety laws in fatality cases are paying as little as $750 in penalties for each death, according to the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s annual report Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. Released […]
Republican Minority Denies Women Equal Pay Rights
by James Parks Two days after Equal Pay Day, a minority of primarily Republican senators once again made it harder for women workers to overcome pay discrimination. The Senate failed to cut off debate on the Fair Pay Restoration Act (H.R. 2831) and bring the bill to the floor for a vote. The […]
New Report Shows True Cost of Shrimp to Workers
by James Parks Tasty shrimp comes with a high price tag—and in the $13 billion seafood processing industry, workers pay it. In a report released today, the Solidarity Center documents child labor, beatings and torture, sweatshop wages and hazardous working conditions in shrimp processing plants in Bangladesh and Thailand. Those two countries export $4 billion worth […]
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