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Posted Oct 22, 2021, 11:50 am
Alex Brown
/Stateline
In a rare move, federal labor officials have threatened to take over Arizona, South Carolina and Utah’s workplace safety programs because they failed to adopt emergency COVID-19 rules to protect health care workers. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 23, 2021, 11:21 am
Alex Brown
/Stateline
Federal safety regulators have issued no standards to protect workers from heat-related hazards - even as climate change increases the risk of deadly heat waves and extreme weather conditions - prompting some states to begin enacting regulations on their own.... Read more»
Posted Dec 21, 2020, 11:41 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Senate Republicans dropped their insistence that a liability shield be included in a bipartisan COVID-19 relief package, but union advocates worry that the measure could spring back to life next year, harming workers and undercut the Biden administration's plans to control the pandemic.... Read more»
Posted Dec 14, 2020, 6:24 pm
Laura Gómez & Jeremy Duda/Arizona Mirror
Eleven presidential electors in Arizona cast their votes on Monday morning for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. By Monday afternoon, as electors in other states did the same, Biden had won enough votes to clinch the presidency.... Read more»
Posted Oct 6, 2020, 1:31 pm
Bryce Covert
/Fairwarning
Workers complained early on in the pandemic about dangerous work conditions; the lack of response from OSHA is blamed in part for the spread of coronavirus and has now led to several lawsuits brought by workers.... Read more»
Posted Sep 1, 2020, 12:32 pm
Rob Winder
/Cronkite News
American Airlines’ announcement that it could let go up to 19,000 workers on Oct. 1 has left the airline’s roughly 10,000 employees in Arizona worried, but hopeful the state can avoid the worst of the cuts.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 5, 2020, 1:54 pm
Alexia Fernández Campbell
/Center for Public Integrity
The latest in the historically fraught relationship among police, labor and the civil rights movement.... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2020, 11:09 am
Joshua Gerard Gargiulo
/Cronkite News
Striking Asarco workers passed four months on the picket line last week, but union officials insist they have strong community support and that workers are committed to staying out until they get a fair deal.... Read more»
Posted Sep 2, 2018, 9:51 pm
Jay L. Zagorsky
/The Ohio State University/The Conversation
Today Labor Day is no longer about trade unionists marching down the street with banners and their tools of trade. Instead, it is a confused holiday with no associated rituals.... Read more»
Posted Sep 4, 2017, 1:08 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Many workers will get holiday pay if they clock in on Labor Day, but for a rapidly growing sector of the labor force it could be just another day on the job. Uber drivers, TaskRabbit handymen, Rover dog-walkers, Airbnb hosts and countless others in the new “gig economy” are all considered independent contractors and not employees.... Read more»
Posted Sep 3, 2016, 5:01 pm
Sabella Scalise
/Cronkite News
The steady decline in union membership has had a ripple effect on wages of nonunion workers, costing them a potential $14 to $52 a week in pay, according to a report released this week.... Read more»
Posted Oct 27, 2015, 1:12 pm
Stuart Silverstein
/FairWarning
More Americans died on the job last year, with the increase concentrated among older employees as well as self-employed and contract workers. ... Read more»
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Posted Sep 2, 2015, 9:32 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
From the start, the city has thrown in with management by not throwing a few more bucks into the kitty. Standing with Sun Tran's strategy means standing with their tactics. Now, that means "scab" labor, which has union leaders calling this a "pivotal point."... Read more»
Posted Jun 16, 2015, 3:51 pm
Simeon Tegel
/Global Post
The secretive, humongous treaty won’t stop labor abuses in poor countries, critics warn.... Read more»
Posted Nov 18, 2014, 1:05 pm
Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore & Alexander Nacht/FactCheck.org
Biden was the keynote speaker at the AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers Summit on Career and Technical Education and Workforce Development on Nov. 13. His comments centered on job opportunities and education, and they included some exaggerations.... Read more»
Posted Nov 7, 2014, 12:57 am
Laurie Liles & Miranda Rivers/Cronkite News
Immigration advocacy groups from across the country urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to act swiftly to “end the deportation enforcement machine” that is separating parents from their children.... Read more»