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Labor strikes and contract negotiations have recently been in the news more than they have been in years. The United Auto Workers went on strike Sept. 14 after the UAW and Detroit’s Big Three, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, couldn’t agree with the union on the terms of a new contract. And over the past […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images People shop in the produce section of a grocery store on September 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Washington, DC CNN  — Americans are taking notice of a possible government shutdown and the uncertainty of ongoing labor strikes, according to the University of Michigan’s latest consumer sentiment survey.
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The United State restricted goods from three more Chinese companies from entering the United States on Tuesday as part of an effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of Uyghur minorities from the U.S. supply chain. Xinjiang Tianmian Foundation Textile Co, Ltd; Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile Co. Ltd, […]
Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) attends a “Politics and Pie” town hall at Phenix Hall in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., August 25, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
Photo Submitted The Arkansas Law Review along with the U of A School of Law presents Children at Work. The annual Arkansas Law Review symposium will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in the law school’s E.J. Ball Courtroom. The symposium will engage […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Division of Coal Mine Workers’ Compensation will host two outreach events in Alabama on Sept. 20 and 21, 2023, for current and former coal miners and their survivors to file or re-file benefit claims for those disabled by black lung disease. The events in Tuscaloosa and […]
September is highlighted not only by back to school, but by the celebration of Labor Day, which recognizes the hard-won battles by unions to obtain meaningful reforms and respect for workers’ value to the U.S. economy. It reminds us that the story of labor is also MSEA’s story. Labor union leaders rose to strength out […]
Employer to pay $570K in back wages to 994 Asian, Black, multi-racial, white applicants DALLAS – The Nielsen Company US LLC, a global marketing research, data analytics and opinion-research company, will pay $570,000 in back wages and interest to resolve allegations of systemic race-based hiring discrimination in Dallas and San Antonio identified by the U.S. […]
WILMINGTON, DE – The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a conciliation agreement with Navient Corp. to resolve alleged hiring discrimination at three of its facilities in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Texas. Headquartered in Wilmington, Navient services student loans for the U.S. Department of Education. The company’s current student loan contract ends December 2023. A compliance […]
The connections between the labor rights or economic justice fight and movements for Black empowerment are many and stretch back to the ultimate combination of these struggles – efforts to end the system of U.S. slavery. And though many people may be slightly familiar with the contributions to these movements by union leader A. Phillip […]