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The documents include reports by FBI agents who interviewed people about shooter Adam Lanza, who killed himself as police arrived at the school.
The documents include reports by FBI agents who interviewed people about shooter Adam Lanza, who killed himself as police arrived at the school.
The Future of Work Needs Strong Unions
AFL-CIO
We hear a great deal about the future of work. Gig economy. Deprofessionalization. Temp, part-time and on-call work. Technology. Automation. Artificial intelligence. Digitization. Deindustrialization. Unfair trade policy and offshoring. While these changes and trends take hold, we are living in an era where the rich and powerful have rigged our economy against working families through well-financed campaigns to weaken workers’ bargaining power, pass perverse “right-to-work laws” and use the courts as a pawn to hollow out the labor movement. If the question is how we push back these ominous trends, the answer is through strong unions.
But first, we have some work to do. We must look inward at our structures, our strategies, our services and our communications with working people. We must understand the most profound changes emerging in American workplaces. We must confront these seismic shifts and turn them into power and opportunity for working people. That is the message being delivered today on the floor of the national AFL-CIO convention in St. Louis where delegates are...
Chef John Besh stepped down from the company he founded after 25 women alleged that they faced sexual harassment while working for the group.
The potential landing danger Suinday follows a close-call in July also involving an Air Canada jet at San Francisco International Airport.
The backlash has been brewing for decades.
The backlash has been brewing for decades.
Labor Rights Protections in Trade Deals Don’t Work
This week in St. Louis, the labor movement called for a "New Deal on Trade," which must include labor rules that protect working families, in the United States and in our trading partners. The failure of existing rules has been covered extensively here on this blog and in the news—but in case anyone needs further proof, the U.S. government recently let deadlines on cases of egregious workers' rights abuses in Colombia and Peru pass with little fanfare.
These cases underscore why workers desperately need effective protections in trade agreements, with swift and certain enforcement. Currently, governments have complete discretion over how to respond to labor rights complaints. Our current trade agreements have no deadlines, no criteria for pursuing sanctions, or even any requirement to act at all. When workers join across borders to document abuses, cases are closed without fixing the problem, or drag on for years. Workers often face serious risks to their lives and livelihoods when they come forward. The United States is sending the message that the results are not worth that risk....
Wesley Mathews, 37, was charged Monday afternoon with first-degree felony injury to a child, a crime punishable by up to life imprisonment.
In the open letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg Damian Collins says the request is part of the ongoing inquiry into what he calls "the phenomenon of fake news" and focuses on the role of foreign actors "abusing platforms such as yours to interfere in the political discourse of other nations."
