After a new evaluation system is implemented, some workers could lose $8,000 per year or more. Threats to quit have been widespread.
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‘Zero Interest in Doing Business’: TSMC Snubs Phoenix Construction Workers
The building trades just won a surprise victory through the city council. But despite the hot labor market, securing manufacturing jobs is an uphill battle for organized labor.
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Labor Developments in the Rust Belt
Michigan is one step closer to repealing right to work; why the end of two-tier wages at Caterpillar shows corporate America’s immense power over workers.
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Labor’s Struggle With Anti-Monopoly
The split between two unions on the JetBlue-Spirit merger reveals the dilemma.
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FTC Forum Shows the Oppression of Noncompete Agreements
From the top to the bottom of the wage scale, these contract clauses are abusive and predatory.
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New Process Gives Undocumented Workers Legal Status to Report Employer Abuse
Should scofflaw employers be allowed to weaponize immigration enforcement? The Department of Homeland Security says no.
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Restoring Workers’ Freedoms
A recent proposal to ban noncompete agreements begins to reverse the erosion of worker power in America.
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USDA Ignores Its Own Proposed Labor Standards
The department has yet to implement a rule requiring its contractors to obey labor laws.
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States Should Celebrate the FTC’s Noncompete Ban … and Then Pass Their Own
To guard against a Republican rollback, states can act to protect worker freedoms.
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House GOP Tries to Cancel Congressional Staff Unions
But it’s not clear whether they can do it.
