BY David Moberg – Are you an employee? It seems like a simple question that must have a simple answer for most people. But definitions in different laws and rulings enforcing the laws vary. And that variation provides an opening…
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South Philly man sentenced for illegally transporting undocumented workers
By Jeff Blumenthal – A South Philadelphia labor contractor was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for illegally transporting undocumented foreign workers and failing to pay employment and income taxes, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said. Kim Meas, 60, a…
Victory! NY Fast Food Wage Board Recommends $15 Minimum Wage
From Jobs With Justice – Today, the New York Wage Board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast food employees to $15 an hour. The board said this increase should be implemented by 2018 in New York City and by…
Jeb Bush says preventing unpaid overtime abuses will hurt workers. What planet is this guy from?
By Hunter – I find Jeb Bush’s consistent wrongness on basic economic and labor issues baffling. Not that he is so often wrong, but that he seems to put so much work into it. Jeb Bush has created a flap…
Fair Trade Vital For America’s Future Prosperity
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Tom Conway, Vice President of the United Steelworkers International Union offers insights from labor negotiations in metals, rubber, paper, oil, chemicals and other industries at the Battle of Homestead Foundation’s Bernard Kleiman Lecture Pittsburgh, PA:…
