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Mar 13 2024
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Private Sector Jobs Continue To Increase In NY: Labor Department
HUDSON VALLEY, NY — According to preliminary seasonally adjusted figures released Thursday by the New York State Department of Labor, private sector jobs in New York and in the Hudson Valley continue to increase. The state's unemployment rate decreased slightly, from 4.6 percent in December 2023 to 4.5 percent in January 2024. Outside of New York City, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.0
Patch.comOct 17 2023
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Department of Labor says Kentucky warehouse violated child labor laws, employed 1 as forklift driver
HEBRON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Kentucky warehouse and distribution center was ordered to stop illegally employing children. The U.S. Department of Labor said in August the department’s Wage and Hour Division discovered Win. IT America Inc. in Hebron was employing two children, 11 and 13, for months. Win. IT America violated several provisions in the Fair Labor Standards Act when it employed one
Fox 56 WDKYApr 19 2024
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VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone
In a landmark victory for organized labor, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Automobile Workers union, becoming the first nonunion auto plant in a Southern state to do so. In a statement late Friday, the company said that the union had won 2,628 votes, with 985 opposed, in a three-day election. Two earlier bids by the U.A.W. to organize the
New York Times (News)Sep 29 2023
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Federal labor department fines 2 St. George Chick-fil-A franchises for child labor violations
ST. GEORGE — Federal investigators have assessed two Chick-fil-A franchises $187,467 in civil penalties for employing 237 minors in violation of child labor provisions, according to a U.S. Department of Labor news release. The department reported Friday it recovered nearly $47,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 101 employees at two St. George Chick-fil-A franchise restaurants that
St George NewsApr 14 2024
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Burnes labors through 5 in start vs. Brewers
BALTIMORE -- Milwaukee's offensive tear finally ran into a roadblock in the form of the Brewers' former ace. Not that Corbin Burnes had it easy. Burnes allowed a home run to the first batter of the game, and Baltimore's new star pitcher left after five innings Sunday against the Brewers. He allowed three runs along with six hits and two walks, but he struck out five and pitched out of trouble
ESPN.comApr 07 2024
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The Perilous Existence of a Hamptons Day Laborer
Early in the evening of Dec. 30, Julio Florencio Teo Gomez, a carpenter from Guatemala City who had shifted around different living situations on Long Island for more than a decade, went looking for money he was owed for a job he had completed before the holidays. Like so many other day laborers operating in the far reaches of Long Island, he had found the work at a roundup one morning in the
New York Times (News)Dec 18 2023
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The U.S. Department of Labor reinvestigates a Vt. excavation company over retaliation allegations
MILTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The U.S. Department of Labor is reinvestigating a Vermont business for repeated retaliation. According to the Department of Labor, Bevins Excavating in Milton terminated a worker for asking to be paid in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. They agreed to a settlement back in May, but the D.O.L. says since then, Bevins Excavating has retaliated against workers who
WCAX 3Apr 19 2024
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UAW vote at Tennessee plant will test resurgent labor movement
Carmakers and labor leaders are closely watching for results to be released on Friday in a seismic union election that could supercharge organizing in the nation’s auto sector and demonstrate the strength of a resurgent labor movement through a victory in the South, a region typically resistant to unions. As many as 4,300 employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are voting on
ABC News (Online)Apr 18 2024
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Unfair labor claim filed against ND over athletes
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- An unfair labor complaint was filed Thursday against the University of Notre Dame for classifying college athletes as "student-athletes." The complaint was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a California-based group calling itself the College Basketball Players Association. It said Notre Dame is engaging in unfair labor practices as defined by the National
ESPN.comApr 22 2024
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Volkswagen vote sets a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South
Volkswagen vote sets a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South
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Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted to join the United Auto Workers union. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with the union's president Shawn Fain.
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