Tag: coronavirus pandemic
As pandemic and economic devastation rage on, $5 for the Fight...
Unions stepping up to fill the gap. Can you donate, too?
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
St. Louis Labor Council President Pat White sees trouble on the horizon.
With...
Trump NLRB General Council issues five memoranda against unions and workers...
Washington – Peter B. Robb, who made his name as a union-busting attorney before he was appointed by President Donald Trump to the position...
Tri-County golf tournament will tee off on Sept. 19
For five months, the monthly Tri-County Labor Club meetings have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Steve Bailey, president of the Tri-County...
CDC issues a warning for this fall if coronavirus measures are...
A top federal health official issued a dire warning last week about what may be to come in the battle against the coronavirus: Follow...
ATU’s Costa: National economy could halt as buses, subways run out...
Washington (PAI) — The nation’s bus and subway systems are running far below capacity and running out of money again, Amalgamated Transit Union President...
Trump Labor Dept. cut millions of front line workers out of...
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) — Congress wants workers, especially frontline health care workers battling the coronavirus pandemic, to get paid sick and...
Trump, Republicans ‘cut and run’ on America’s workers
As tens of millions of workers teeter on the brink of financial disaster, Congressional Republicans and the White House walked out on negotiations last...
OPINION: The coming eviction crisis: ‘It’s hard to pay the bills...
If the federal government repeats the mistakes of the last recession,
millions of Americans will lose their apartments and homes
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
In Columbus, Ohio, judges...
Illinois businesses, schools could be fined for COVID-19 violations
Springfield, IL – Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week announced new rules to fight the out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic, threatening businesses, schools and day cares with...
Chicago teachers threatened a strike. Hours later, Chicago schools went remote
On Aug. 4, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) planned to call a strike authorization vote to keep students from...