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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today adopted a final rule that would alleviate the delays, inefficiencies, abuse of process and unnecessary litigation that plague the current system for workers who want to vote on whether to have a union. It will take effect on April 14. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said:
Here are some headlines from the working family’s news we're reading today (after the jump).
An anonymous donor pays off 150 Toys R Us layaway accounts totaling $20,000 at Massachusetts store. NECN's Jeff Saperstone reports that customers were overwhelmed with the gesture.
Supermodel Beverly Johnson has joined the ranks of Bill Cosby's accusers, saying the comedian lured her to his home in the mid-1980s and drugged her.
Using logic so tortured that Dick Cheney would approve, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that companies didn't have to compensate workers for required security checkpoint waits that take as long as 30 minutes a day to complete. The ruling overturned a federal appeals court decision from 2013, which held that workers at a warehouse that provides services for Amazon.com should be compensated for the time they were required to go through security checkpoints whose purpose was to prevent employee theft. The workers don't work directly for Amazon but are hired by Integrity Staffing Solutions. The outcome of the case is likely to affect workers at other companies, such as Apple and CVS, who are currently engaged in similar lawsuits.
Hours of heavy rain soaked Camarillo, California, causing a huge mudslide in the same area that had burned in the 2013 Camarillo Springs wildfire.
Strong winds in the Sierra Nevada mountains whipped up waves large enough to attract surfers to Lake Tahoe. Some of the waves reached seven feet high.
Elizabeth Barrett from Scotsdale, Arizona, described what happened during engine room fire on the Insignia cruise ship.
Oceania Cruises said three people died on the cruise ship Insignia when it had a fire in the engine room Thursday morning.
The worst storm to hit California in years was due to leave Los Angeles and San Diego wind-whipped and drenched on Friday.
