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Airline Workers Call For More COVID-19 Protections
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 4:59pm | 968Airline workers, like their counterparts at groceries, meatpacking plants, warehouses and ground transportation companies, are worried employers are not doing enough to protect them from infection. Even though airlines only have skeleton operations because of the coronavirus crisis and many...
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Post Office Reform Act Likely Dead This Year After House Republican Investigating Trump Steps Down
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 9:15am | 737The Postal Reform Act of 2017, a bipartisan attempt to overhaul the perennially ailing U.S. Postal Service, appears headed for the dead letter office amid the chaos in Congress. Even though the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the sweeping legislation on March 16,...
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Amid Wage Disparities And Political Concerns Over Jobs, Top CEOs Bring In Beaucoup Incomes
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 11:34am | 502The United States' top 500 chief executive officers took home an average of $12.4 million last year, and their earnings were approximately 340 times higher than the average worker's wages last year, according to a new report from AFL-CIO. 335:1 According to the report, production and nonsupervisory...