Trump Kills Safety Rules, Hotel, Casino Staffs Suffer the Consequences; Infections Have Run Rampant Since the City Re-Opened
Author: Bill Schleicher
‘Merry Christmas, Losers’: White House, Agriculture Department Cutting Food Assistance; Children, Seniors, Disabled Hit the Hardest
Minimum Wage Workers in Houston Show How to Win Better Pay While Donald Trump’s Labor Department works to diminish employee rights, organized workers have scored an important victory deep in the heart of anti-union Texas. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner signed an executive order raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2021 for 8,000 people at the city’s two airports. That’s a 65% increase for workers paid the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. About 8,000 baggage handlers, caterers, wheelchair attendants and others benefit. The Service Employees International Union organized the Houston workers. Workers in Denver earlier…
Trump’s Anti-Labor Relations Board Official Calls Scabby an ‘Unlawful Coercion’
Trump’s Packed Supreme Court Backs Corporate ‘Forced Arbitration’ that Bars Workers From Taking Abusive Bosses to Court