July 5th 2022
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Delta Airlines announced this week it would begin paying flights attendants for time spent boarding the plane. Previously, flight attendants were not paid for their work helping board the plane until the plane’s door was closed, a practice flight attendants have...
In May, a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight to San Diego punched a flight attendant after she asked the passenger to wear a facemask. In early August, a drunk passenger groped two women flight attendants and punched a male flight attendant. The crew...
In anticipation of the coming Biden presidency, Edward Segal, writing for Forbes, examined Biden's labor plan to see what he can accomplish through solely executive action and what needs congressional approval. Of the reforms listed on Biden's plan, the ones he can...
The Department of Labor announced this morning that 2.9 million more Americans filed for unemployment in the past week, raising the nation’s record-shattering unemployment rate beyond 14.7%. Among the 36.5 million people now unemployed are some 600,000...
Yesterday the NLRB ruled against the UAW in its bid for a new election to represent both skilled production and maintenance employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In December 2015, the Board certified the UAW as the representative of only the...
The government shutdown ended Friday afternoon after 35 days. Many political players and commentators are attributing Trump’s “caving” on the border wall to Nancy Pelosi’s prowess at controlling the struggle between the parties, or to rising public resentment and...