#labor-rights

#labor-rights

"We're striking along with all these other shops and together trying to improve the landscape for legal representation in New York City," Ryan Acquaotta, a campaign coordinator and shop steward at Urban Justice Center, said. "When everybody's doing it together, it's a lot harder to break the strike."

The California Privacy Protection Agency board approved new rules for companies' use of automated technologies, mandating cybersecurity audits and privacy assessments.

The tentative agreement between the Legal Aid Society and the attorneys' union comes after negotiations to ensure that 1,100 public interest attorneys will remain employed before a strike deadline.

The company admitted that its staff had cooperated with Brazil's military dictatorship to target workers for political persecution, beginning to negotiate reparations.

"For generations, the United Mine Workers of America has fought to protect the health and safety of coal miners and all working people," union president Cecil Roberts said in a statement announcing a lawsuit against the cuts in May.

Nearly 73 million workers live in the 18 states that now have such preemptive laws, effectively stripping cities of the power to enact their own labor protections.

"You are standing up for working people across America," Moulton told workers while on the picket line Tuesday, according to WBZ. "Republic is repeatedly failing to put a fair deal on the table. If you just look at what Republic is paying compared to other trash collection companies in the area, they're underpaid."

Civil servants are beginning indefinite industrial action from Monday, protesting against office closures and a work from home ban imposed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The WARN Act was specifically written for cities like Mountain View, cities with single employers that employ a large portion of the local workforce.

"Without their important, critical labor, our society would cease to function," said Esteban Wood, policy director at WeCount!. Wood said there needs to be more recognition of the importance of the labor domestic workers perform and the vulnerabilities they face in the workplace.

Despite the influx of new subscribers in r/antiwork, a significant drop in activity was observed post-January 2022, primarily due to backlash after a moderator's media appearance.

Union and college negotiators reached a tentative agreement in March for a new, three-year union contract, and the union members voted in April to approve that deal.

Saraí Ortiz reflected on the stark reality of her father's arrest, noting, 'You know this is a possibility all your life, but then when it happens, it plays out differently than what you think.'

Opposition parties criticized the government for dampening interest in critical issues related to immigration and labor, a move seen as a strategic boycott of the referendum.

The recent Italian referendum aimed at facilitating citizenship for certain immigrants and enhancing labor rights was rendered void due to insufficient voter turnout.

The Lurie budget puts lots of money in to hiring more cops, presumably to fight crime—but wage theft is also a crime, and this bit of law enforcement is going to go away.

More than two-thirds of riders and drivers in UK's 'gig economy' suffer anxiety over long hours and bad ratings, highlighting their precarious working conditions.

The plaintiffs accuse Smokey Robinson of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault, seeking $50 million in damages, filed anonymously for fear of repercussions.

The decision to raise Denmark's retirement age to 70 by 2040 has garnered significant media attention due to its impact on workers, especially in physical jobs.

For unions, this represents a once-in-a-generation brand opportunity: to reintroduce themselves to the rising workforce not as relics of a bygone era, but as modern advocates who are shaping the future of work.

"ICE worked with Homeland Security Investigations special agents to target the business's 'alleged unauthorized hiring practices' during the recent crackdown in Lowell.”