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Owner of 5 California Wingstop locations owes $3 million, accused of underpaying 550 workers
A California Wingstop franchise owner owes nearly $3.2 million in penalties for wage theft violations, accused Thursday by state regulators…
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Biden makes history by joining striking US car workers
Former US President Donald Trump will visit Michigan on Wednesday Joe Biden joined striking auto workers on the picket line…
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Once-weekly ALTUVIIIO® approved in Japan as a new class of factor VIII therapy for hemophilia A
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing authorization for ALTUVIIIO®[Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant), Fc-VWFXTEN Fusion Protein],…
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Auto workers expand strike to 38 locations in 20 states
By David Koenig | Associated Press The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike against major carmakers Friday, walking out…
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SAG-AFTRA can’t tell performers not to work on Dancing With The Stars
Dancing With The StarsPhoto: ABC Earlier today, comedy actor and writer Matt Walsh—the cool and funny one, not the… other…
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United Auto Workers union sets new deadline for deal or more locals will go on strike
The United Auto Workers and Detroit’s Big Three carmakers resumed talks aimed at ending a strike now in its fourth…
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California lawmakers approve nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers
A sweeping agreement between labor and the health industry would gradually raise the minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of…
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Marvel visual effects workers vote unanimously to unionize
By Ramishah Maruf | CNN Marvel Studio’s VFX workers unanimously voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage…
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California lawmakers vote to give striking workers unemployment benefits despite low funds
The blue supermoon, which is the closest full moon of the year, rises over the Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday,…
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Jimmy Fallon faces toxic workplace allegations on Tonight Show
Is it possible to run a daily television program without succumbing to workplace toxicity? In the last few years, we’ve…
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Disney’s in-house VFX workers make first steps towards unionizing
SAG-AFTRA and WGA members on the picket line at Disney Photo: Tommaso Boddi (Getty Images) Back-to-school commercials and Halloween displays…
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California state workers share mixed feelings on SEIU 1000 deal. Will the agreement pass?
California’s largest state worker union this week announced what union leaders characterized as a historic win for workers after a…
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If state workers want raises this year, here’s when unions and CalHR need to seal the deal
Members of state worker unions aren’t the only ones that need to ratify their contracts. Before civil service employees can…
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SEIU Local 1000 announces tentative contract for California state workers. What’s in the deal?
After four months of bargaining, dozens of labor actions and eight arrests, California’s largest state employee union has reached a…
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California Democrats urge Newsom to give state worker union a contract and raises
As contract bargaining heats up across the state, the chairs of California’s statehouse committees on labor and public employment have…
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Intensive lifestyle intervention linked to increased employment for people with type 2 diabetes
USC Schaeffer Center and University of Minnesota researchers found that study participants without a college degree had even larger employment…
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California Democrats will reintroduce bill to give striking workers unemployment benefits
Striking California workers would be eligible for unemployment benefits if lawmakers approve a proposal that Democrats plan to introduce in…
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Amid lack of accountability for bias in maternity care, a California family seeks justice
Aniya was ready to leave. She was dressed in a fuzzy white onesie her mother had packed for her first…
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On-set VFX workers petition to unionize at Marvel Studios
Emilia Clarke and Kingsley Ben-Adir behind the scenes of Marvel’s Secret InvasionPhoto: Gerard Binks (Getty Images) Back in December, stories…
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California state workers, The Sacramento Bee’s Maya Miller wants to hear from you
Sacramento Bee reporter Maya Miller photographed in Sacramento Oct. 10, 2022. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] The Sacramento Bee has a…
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Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine shut down again over reports of rock fall – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 16, 2023 10:03 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size…
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Adjuncts Making $100K? Sure, in the Magical World of ZipRecruiter
Adjuncting is a job where the pros can be easily outweighed by the cons: the heavy workload, the student-loan debt,…
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California child care union wins raises in bargaining, reforms and waivers in state budget
Members of Child Care Providers United, labor union formed in 2020 to represent California’s child care workers, and children march…
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State workers protest at California state Capitol to demand pay raises amid SEIU bargaining
Jackie Elward of Rohnert Park participates in the SEIU Local 1000 silent march at the Capitol on Thursday to draw…
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Dermot Mulroney wants actors to “strike immediately”
Ahead of the Screen Actors Guild’s final week of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),…
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Michigan’s Striking Graduate Students Ask: Where Did These Grades Come From?
When instructors stop teaching their undergraduate courses, what’s a university to do when grades are due? That’s a key question…
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Is maternal obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with adverse pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal outcomes?
In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers assessed the correlation between maternal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and pregnancy,…
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Chronic lifeguard shortage serves as springboard to address racial inequities
Two summers ago, a teenager who had jumped off the diving board started struggling in the deep end, her arms…
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Republicans blame Labor Secretary nominee for massive California unemployment insurance fraud
Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, grilled California’s Julie Su Wednesday about her record as a top state labor official. Paul Kitagaki…
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Striking Faculty and Grad Students Won Big Pay Raises This Academic Year
Higher-ed unions had their most successful academic year in recent memory. A series of strikes led to changes that graduate…
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SAG-AFTRA overwhelmingly votes in favor of strike authorization
As the WGA writers’ strike barrels into its second month, with AMPTP continuing to tell studio employees, consumers, and investors…
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AMPTP is suddenly happy to give directors a “historic” contract
Late last night, the Directors Guild Of America released a statement announcing that they had come to a tentative agreement…
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WGA vows to continue the strike, regardless of DGA, SAG-AFTRA talks
WGA isn’t giving up its crusade for a fair wage and job security any time soon. As its fellow unions,…
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Senate passes $25 minimum wage for health care workers. What will it mean for hospitals?
Lawmakers in the California Senate voted in favor of a bill on May 31, 2023 that would raise the minimum…
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How long can Julie Su remain Joe Biden’s acting labor secretary? Answer may surprise you
Julie Su’s nomination as U.S. Labor secretary has stalled in the Senate Annabelle Gordon Washington Julie Su’s bid to become…
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Are US prescription drug prices 10 times those of other nations? Only sometimes
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whether in Congress or as a presidential candidate, has always taken strong positions against the high…
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Susan Sarandon was arrested at an entirely different New York protest
Susan SarandonPhoto: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images) Half of Hollywood is on the picket line for the Writers Guild of America…
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President Biden isn’t about to cross any picket lines
President Biden Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (Getty Images) Given that the average sitting commander-in-chief regularly relies on an entire communications…
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California state scientists say they earn less than peer engineers. Could a new bill help?
California’s state scientists have fought a long battle for higher salaries. These roughly 4,000 workers, represented by the California Association…
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A Professor at New College of Florida Quits in Dramatic Fashion. Here’s Why He Felt He Had to Go.
Matthew Lepinski decided he’d had enough. At the very end of New College of Florida’s contentious Board of Trustees meeting…
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Julie Su’s nomination as Labor secretary survived the first step. But what’s next?
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is undecided about whether to confirm California’s Julie Su as U.S. Labor secretary Greg Nash Washington…
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The University of Michigan Demands Flattery for President — While Crushing Labor
Abigail McFee, a fellow in poetry in the University of Michigan’s M.F.A. program, was asked to write a poem for…
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Legal battle over Prop. 22 continues as union and gig drivers petition state Supreme Court
Erica Mighetto, an Uber and Lyft driver, organizes a gig workers rally against Proposition 22 outside the state Capitol on…
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Julie Su ‘presided over a disaster’ in California, GOP’s Mitch McConnell says
Julie Su testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during a hearing on her nomination to…
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Kevin Kiley says Julie Su would bring California’s labor chaos to the nation
President Biden and nominee to be Secretary of Labor Julie Su celebrate during an event to introduce her in the…
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Writers Guild votes overwhelmingly in favor of strike authorization
Picketing during the 2007 WGA strikePhoto: David McNew (Getty Images) Another Hollywood writers’ strike just got significantly more likely, with…
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CSU student assistants say they can’t make ends meet. Now they’ll file for their own union
Yet another labor movement is afoot at the nation’s largest public university system. Student assistants at California State University, backed…
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Stanford Told Faculty Not to Publicly Share Opinions on a Grad-Student Union Drive. Then It Reversed Course.
Last week, soon after news broke that graduate-student workers at Stanford University had initiated a unionization campaign, a professor there…
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How did mandating a short paid maternity leave impact work and fertility in Switzerland?
In a recent study published in the Labor Economics Journal, researchers investigated the effects of the 14-week paid maternity leave…
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Rutgers’ President Threatened to Take Striking Instructors to Court. Then He Walked It Back.
Thousands of instructors at Rutgers University joined a national surge in union activity on Monday, becoming the fifth currently active…
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