Tag: Labor

Now that millennials practically dominate the workforce, we are seeing the impact of this superficial and flawed diversity education. (iStock)

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Diversity training is making things worse

Dan Hannan · April 19, 2021 4:00 am

Wisconsin Senate leader frames legal marijuana as job safety issue

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2021 9:00 pm

A banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Organizers are pushing for some 6,000 Amazon workers to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on the promise it will lead to better working conditions, better pay and more respect. Amazon is pushing back, arguing that it already offers more than twice the minimum wage in Alabama and workers get such benefits as health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues.

End of Alabama battle could be months away as union plots Amazon challenge

Zach Halaschak · April 15, 2021 10:30 am

In this Oct. 18, 2010 photo, an Amazon.com package awaits delivery from UPS in Palo Alto, Calif.

Alabama landslide vote heralds labor dinosaurs’ extinction

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2021 4:01 am

West Virginia offering remote workers $12,000 to move there

Haley Victory Smith · April 15, 2021 12:23 am

Romney and Sinema working on bipartisan minimum wage hike

Carly Roman · April 14, 2021 6:29 pm

A McDonald's sign is displayed outside the fast food restaurant in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, April 9, 2020. McDonald's executives took pay cuts as the coronavirus pandemic caused March sales to plunge.

McDonald’s to start anti-harassment training for restaurants worldwide

Kaelan Deese · April 14, 2021 4:39 pm

Tom Cotton leads push to bar federal funding to localities financing illegal immigrants

Mica Soellner · April 12, 2021 7:51 pm

Businesses breathe sigh of relief after Amazon defeats unions

Zach Halaschak · April 10, 2021 10:27 am

A banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Organizers are pushing for some 6,000 Amazon workers to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on the promise it will lead to better working conditions, better pay and more respect. Amazon is pushing back, arguing that it already offers more than twice the minimum wage in Alabama and workers get such benefits as health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues.

Union demands investigation as Alabama vote appears to be won by Amazon

Zach Halaschak · April 9, 2021 3:57 pm

Democratic members of Congress join representatives of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union gather outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on March 5, 2021, to advocate for the ongoing unionization vote at the sprawling campus. The elected officials pictured include, starting second from left, Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, Nikema Williams of Georgia, Terri Sewell of Alabama, Cori Bush of Missouri and Andy Levin of Michigan.

Amazon emerges victorious in Alabama unionization battle

Zach Halaschak · April 9, 2021 3:22 pm

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Washington.

Biden’s war on independent contractors

Edward Longe · April 9, 2021 4:00 am