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Utility officials are predicting millions will have no power and are weighing drastic measures ahead of Irma — including closing the state's nuclear plants.
Utility officials are predicting millions will have no power and are weighing drastic measures ahead of Irma — including closing the state's nuclear plants.
Utility officials are predicting millions will have no power and are weighing drastic measures ahead of Irma — including closing the state's nuclear plants.
Attention Kentucky: Closing a Pension Is Never a Good Idea
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it–and it’s prime time for Kentucky lawmakers to learn a history lesson.
Kentucky’s public pension funds face very real challenges, caused by decades of underfunding on behalf of the state. While public employees contributed with every paycheck, the state continuously kicked the can down the road. Now, rather than address the state’s pension problems with sound economic policy, political interests seek to close Kentucky’s pension systems and place newly hired employees in a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan.
A report released today by consulting firm PFM recommends the switch away from pensions, while also suggesting several other radical changes, including increasing the retirement age for public employees. The report relies upon junk math that has been discredited in other states in the past, in order to push Gov. Matt Bevin’s political agenda. PFM promotes a failed model, recommending measures that will damage both the fiscal health of the state and the recruitment and retention of public servants.
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South Florida's beaches were eerily bare Friday as residents packed hardware stores and waited at gas stations ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Standing with the Dreamers: The Working People Weekly List
Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s this week’s Working People Weekly List.
Latino Labor Conference Turns Into Pro-Dreamers, Anti-Trump March: "Led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and urged on by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., delegates and leaders of Labor’s Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) converted the first half day of their two-day convention in D.C. into a pro-Dreamer anti-Donald Trump march."
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: The Manufacturing Council Was Wasted, Useless: "AFL CIO President Richard Trumka discusses leaving President Trump's manufacturing council and the president's comments on tax reform and supporting a Democratic deal on supporting a debt limit extension."
AFL-CIO Boss Roasts Trump as Health Hazard, Labor Bust: "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka celebrated Labor Day by blasting Donald Trump for having “repeatedly assaulted” regulations meant to keep U.S. workers safe. Speaking on CNN, the labor leader said Trump has repealed several...
The NWS said that "locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or months," adding that "structural damage to buildings, with many washing away" was possible.
The NWS said that "locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or months," adding that "structural damage to buildings, with many washing away" was possible.
The NWS said that "locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or months," adding that "structural damage to buildings, with many washing away" was possible.
Levin: Improving Workers' Rights in Mexico Key to Improving NAFTA
In a new essay for the Financial Times, Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) describes dismal working conditions in Mexico and argues that improving the rights of Mexico's working people to join together in union is a key way to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement.
An excerpt:
After delaying labor reform for two decades, Mexico put a constitutional amendment on fast track, allowing workers to vote for officers and to ratify contracts. This effort occurred in the prelude to the vote in the U.S. Congress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Trump jettisoned TPP in the early days of his presidency, but the constitutional amendment was ratified in February.
Real reform at last in Mexico? Surely not yet. The critical "secondary" legislation to implement the amendment has yet to be enacted and could result in limited or nonexistent change, in effect pouring old wine into new bottles. It is not a positive sign that legislation to add transparency was put together largely without open public participation.
But the solution is not to throttle trade with...
