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What if when you had a question or a concern about your workplace, you could go somewhere and get answers? Our friends at Working America, AFL-CIO's community affiliate, are launching a new site, www.fixmyjob.com, where every worker will have a resource to get more information or privately raise concerns about workplace issues.For fixmyjob.com to be successful, more information needs to be collected about people who work. Can you take a few minutes to answer some quick questions about your current job, or the last job you had?Fill out the quick survey now to share your story of work and to make sure fixmyjob.com becomes a powerful tool to support workers:go.aflcio.org/fix-my-job
When learning that she would be classified by her employer not as an employee, but as an "independent" contractor, Sara Horowitz decided to do something, not just accept denial of benefits and security from her job. She grew up in a labor-oriented family and even though her position didn't qualify her to join any existing union, she decided to form her own. Horowitz and her work with the Freelancers Union were recently covered in a New York Times article.
The military’s tuition assistance program will not be suspended after all.The Department of Defense will pay for the program for all four military branches, George Little, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said Wednesday.Citing budget constraints, the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force announced earlier this month that they would suspend paying new claims. The recently passed continuing resolution, ho...
Footage from a helmet camera worn by a skydiving instructor during his fatal jump in Florida showed that he was trying to help another man just before they both died, officials say.Orvar Arnarson's camera showed him trying to pull the cord on Andrimar Pordarson's parachute, Pasco County Detective William Lindsey said during a Tuesday news conference. It wasn't clear why the student couldn't pull t...
A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows states that cut tax rates do worse in terms of economic growth than other states. Numerous Republican governors have pushed for tax cuts under the premise that lower tax rates lead to greater economic growth, but the CBPP study concludes that this premise is wrong.
A Chicago anti-violence campaign is being criticized for featuring a photo of a 17-year-old rapper who has had run-ins with the law over firearms – including a 2011 conviction for pointing a gun at a police officer.The anti-violence group 500campaign posted a picture of the young rapper Chief Keef on its Instagram feed this week with the caption, “Angry because over 500 were murdered in Chicago.”T...
Over the past 40 years, some of the nation’s biggest and most profitable companies have not only moved America's jobs and manufacturing overseas, but by taking advantage of a U.S. tax code that encourages companies to shift their income overseas, they have cut the taxes they owe by more than half. The result, writes Jia Lynn Yang in The Washington Post,is lower revenue here that could pay for infrastructure, education and other services that support domestic growth—and that make life easier for U.S. firms.
The man referred to as the "East Coast Rapist" -- tied to a string of attacks along the Eastern Seaboard -- was indicted Tuesday in the county where he has said his reign of terror began.Aaron Thomas, 41, was indicted by prosecutors in Prince George's County, Md., on six counts of first-degree rape and related charges, reported NBCWashington.com. He is accused of raping and kidnapping six women in...
Imagine 2050 sends us the following story from its blog.The AFL-CIO and the SEIU are standing up to Republicans and business groups for fair wages in federal immigration reform. While the group of bipartisan senators, called the “Gang of Eight,” working on the immigration bill say that the bill is 90% done, much contention remains around the "guest" worker provisions in the bill. [In fact, the so-called “guest” worker provisions in the bill are not “guest” worker provisions at all. The AFL-CIO has insisted that any new foreign workers be allowed a road map to citizenship and portability between employers so that they are not indentured to a single employer as a condition of remaining in the United States —as is the case under most existing temporary worker programs.]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has waded into a religious-infused campus controversy, asking the state university system chancellor to look into a classroom lesson at Florida Atlantic University in which students were instructed to stomp on sheets of paper that had "Jesus" written on them.Scott said in a letter Tuesday to State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan that he was "deeply disappoin...
