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Sign Petition: Paid Parental Leave -- Urge Senators to Support This First Step
Business  (tags: women, workers, pay, family, medical, parental, paid, leave, act, pregnant, baby, birth, adoption, child, care, culture, business, americans, corporate, ethics, money, economy, society )

Tom
- 144 days ago - change.org
The Paid Parental Leave Act addresses ensures that parents can spend at least four weeks at home with a new child without suffering devastating financial consequences. Workers should not be forced to choose between their mortgage and their new child.
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Sign Petition: Support AgJOBS To Help America's Farm Workers
Business  (tags: society, culture, rights, farm, workers, government, law, agjobs, poverty, wages, housing, healthcare, food, agriculture, stability, guestworker, business, economy, humans, rights )

Tom
- 177 days ago - ufwaction.org
There's a bipartisan immigration bill before Congress that could drastically improve the lives of these men and women who pick our country's food. It's called AgJOBS--The Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (S. 1038, Feinstein).
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Sign Petition: Take Action on the Anniversary of Maria Isabel's Heat Death
Business  (tags: business, corporate, dishonesty, ethics, corruption, money, politics, farming, society, Maria, Isabel, Vasquez, Jimenez, heat, wave, farm, workers, abuse, humans, freedoms, culture, rights, children, sadness, safety, death, crime )

Tom
- 177 days ago - ufwaction.org
We want to tell you a story. We wish we could say this story is fictional. It isn't. It's a story of agribusinesses greed and indifference. It's the story of a young girl whose life was lost before she even had a chance to start living it.
20 comments
Work Nightmare No.1: The Very Bad Boss
Business  (tags: business, workers, ba bosses )

Cal
- 187 days ago - cnn.com
Some of the most successful careers I've seen have been born of women who overcame one of life's scariest job situations, the very bad boss
3 comments
After Years Of Lies, WSJ Concedes That Employee Free Choice Act 'Doesn't Remove The Secret-Ballot Option'
Business  (tags: EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, unions, antiUnion groups, Wall Street Journal, workers, employees, freedom to form a union, secret ballot )

Blue
- 230 days ago - thinkprogress.org
The acknowledgment by the WSJ that the legislation doesn't eliminate the option of a secret-ballot election is surprising given that it has been one of the most aggressive pushers of the false meme:
7 comments
Stimulus Package: Why Workers Need More
Business  (tags: economy, finance, workers )

Michael
- 261 days ago - workers.org
If the jobless rate remains at the present level for the next year, the officially unemployed will have lost $460 billion in wages. This does not include the millions who are unemployed but not counted because they have given up looking for work.
2 comments
Employers Use Federal Law to Deny Benefits
Business  (tags: employers, benefits, workers, judges, federal law )


- 489 days ago - biz.yahoo.com
Workers -- and some judges -- frustrated in legal fights over benefits with large employers
4 comments
This Rose Is Sweet for Flower Workers
Business  (tags: roses, health, nature, workers )

Brian
- 636 days ago - contracostatimes.com
Fair Trade Certified roses produced at farms that protect employees rights. The nonprofit org. is promoting Fair Trade Certified roses as an alternative to their conventional counterparts, which are often sprayed with chemicals.
1 comment
Tomato Pickers Protest At Burger King
Business  (tags: burger king, tomato, workers )

Ben
- 707 days ago - blogmyway.org
Farmworkers, union members and activists marched through Miami's city streets to Burger King headquarters Friday to protest low wages for tomato pickers and alleged exploitation of field workers. (Nov. 30). Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
1 comment
TURN OFF YOUR EMAIL & GET SOME WORK DONE!
Business  (tags: BUSINESS, WORKERS, EMAIL, COMPANIES, INTEL, NO-EMAIL DAY, PRODUCTIVITY )

Thankful
- 750 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
With inboxes bulging with messages and many workers dreading the daily deluge of e-mail, some companies are taking drastic action.Intel has become the latest in an increasingly long line of companies to launch a so-called 'no e-mail day'. More talking!
1 comment
Workers Walk Away From Bad Bosses
Business  (tags: business, ethics, integrity, workers, bosses )

Ali
- 955 days ago - news.com.au
EVERYONE'S worked for a bad boss at some point in their career, but it seems the tables are turning, with employees increasingly walking out on maddening managers
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