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Aug 5, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Michele Evermore |Jody Calemine
Donald Trump proclaimed he was for “all the forgotten men and women,” in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention. His vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, consistently portrays himself as a pro-worker populist. But an analysis of the labor chapter of Project 2025—an ambitious rightwing plan to guide the next Republican presidency—found that it has little to offer them.
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May 13, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Jody Calemine |Emily McGrath |Lea Woods
For all the successful strikes and unionization drives over the past few years, for all the attention that labor has received, America’s union movement has fallen short in one key area—it has failed to add a significant number of members, a long-awaited development that would show that labor’s decades-long decline has finally ended.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Michele Evermore |Jody Calemine |Emily McGrath |Steven Greenhouse
On Tuesday, April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3–2 to issue a final rule formally banning noncompetition agreements nationwide. Noncompetition agreements (NCAs), or noncompetes as they are commonly known, are post-employment contractual clauses that block employees from working for a competitor or starting a competing business for a certain period of time and/or within a specified geographic boundary.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Jody Calemine |Lea Woods |Julie Kashen
When the UAW won the historic union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga this past Friday, it did something that many labor experts said couldn’t be done. For decades, unions have been told, “You can’t win in the South.” For decades, they’ve also been told that it’s next to impossible to unionize factory workers because they’re so terrified that their factories will close and move south of the border or overseas if they unionize. But Shawn Fain, the UAW’s president, wasn’t buying any of that.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Michele Evermore |Jody Calemine |Emily McGrath |Kings Floyd
On Tuesday, April 9, House lawmakers passed the bipartisan H.R.6655 A Stronger Workforce for America Act (ASWA), introduced by Virginia Foxx (R–NC) and Bobby Scott (D–VA). The final vote was 378–26, with 26 abstentions. The bill will now go to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee for consideration. If passed, the bill’s reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) will fund the WIOA system through 2030.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Kings Floyd |Jody Calemine |Avery Oliver |Rebecca Vallas
For millions of people with disabilities, flying is a logistical nightmare. Whether it’s a lack of support from air carriers, or the federal government’s murky policy and enforcement practices, disabled people routinely encounter barriers that discourage and dissuade them from flying. Of particular concern is the pervasive trend of airlines’ poor handling of wheelchairs and other mobility devices.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jody Calemine |Steven Greenhouse |Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Julie Kashen
Back in 1997, I wrote a front-page story for the New York Times about a Nike shoe plant in Vietnam where workers were forced to work sixty-five-hour weeks for $10 a week and where many employees were exposed to carcinogens that exceeded local legal standards by 177 times. Around that time, I also wrote about 15-year-old apparel workers in Honduras who worked seventy-five-hour weeks for $0.31 an hour for a company that made clothing for Walmart and other chains.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jody Calemine |Rebecca Vallas |Emily McGrath |Laura Valle-Gutierrez
In just about every corner of the country, policymakers and industry partners alike want to help develop their regional industries and economies so that they become an innovative and vibrant technology hub—a location seen as a global leader in developing and commercializing certain technologies and industries.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Kings Floyd |Lea Woods |Jody Calemine |Julie Kashen
Pre-reading note regarding terminology: person-first language was the preferred method to refer to people with disabilities for many years, including at the time of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. However, more recently, some members of the disability community have made the case that being a disabled person can be a cornerstone of a person’s proud identity and choose to be referred to in that manner.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Julie Kashen |Jody Calemine |Laura Valle-Gutierrez
Over the past few years, workers have been organizing unions at a breakneck pace. Whether that organizing pace is sustainable depends upon a number of factors, the most important of which is whether—and how quickly—it translates into concrete improvements in these workers’ lives. If federal labor law worked, all this organizing would lead seamlessly into collective bargaining with an employer.
