Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/systemic-violations-worker-rights-us-comes-dead-last-labor-rankings-wealthy-nations Published on Thursday, June 18, 2020 by Common Dreams The U.S. was identified as a country where “the government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers, putting fundamental rights under … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): This week is the one year anniversary of the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in Epic Systems vs. Lewis―a decision that will effectively force the vast majority of U.S. workers to sign away their rights. … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Whether it’s the recently decided Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME, or so-called “right-to-work” laws in dozens of states, workers’ freedom to join together to negotiate a fair wage and better working conditions is … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): For decades, our right to collectively negotiate a fair return on our work has been under attack. Whether it is so-called “right-to-work” laws, or legal attempts to undermine collective bargaining rights―corporate lobbyists seek to … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In his first year, President Trump—with the help of Congress—launched an unprecedented attack on regulations, rolling back or delaying countless rules protecting workers. A report from EPI’s Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): There’s a growing threat to workers’ rights that you may not have heard of, but today impacts over 60 million U.S. workers. It’s called forced arbitration. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard … Continued
From Interfaith Worker Justice (http://www.iwj.org): Now more than ever, the nation is waking up to the devastating realities of wage theft. In the past two weeks alone, workers recovered, or are in the process of recovering, stolen wages on a … Continued