President Trump’s manufacturing council isn’t getting much work done, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.”
After the AFL-CIO leader left the president’s manufacturing council following Trump’s highly criticized response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., Trumka slammed the council’s lack of productivity. article...Education and Infrastructure Grow the Economy. Other Proposals Being Debated in Illinois Don’t.
With the State of Illinois finally having a new budget for the first time in two years, the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Economic Policy Institute evaluated the economic research on policy measures currently under consideration by state lawmakers.
The full report is available here:...
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Labor Department rescinds Obama-era guidance on joint-employers
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on Wednesday rescinded Obama-era guidance that defines a "joint-employer."
The informal guidance was similar to a 2015 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling now being challenged in court, but impacted different laws.
NLRB considers a company jointly liable for its contractors' compliance with the National Labor Relations Act, which gives employees the right...
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It’s the end of the road for the GOP’s big tax experiment in Kansas
The grand economic experiment on the prairie has ended. Kansas’ Republican-held Legislature delivered a stunning defeat to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday, voting to demolish his massive tax cut that led to massive budget shortfalls and sent Kansas into a political tailspin.
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The Labor Paper has covered this issue extensively....
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