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Labor unions accuse administration of failing to protect workers under coronavirus relief package
https://perkinsreport.com/story/labor-unions-accuse-administration-of-failing-to-protect-workers-under-coronavirus-relief-package/
Major labor unions are accusing the Trump administration of allowing some companies receiving federal aid to avoid payroll and other requirements under the coronavirus relief package.
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Labor unions accuse administration of failing to protect workers under coronavirus relief package (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2020
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(2,553 posts)1. We were promised worker protections by our side.
<> The unions wrote a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), asking for more worker protections in future aid packages.
The letter was signed by seven groups, including the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that Congress passed in March requires some businesses that receive aid to keep a certain amount of people on payroll or to spend a certain amount of loans on payroll costs. The unions suggest those worker protections are being waived for some recipients.
[W]e are alarmed that the Federal Reserve's lending facility for large businesses does not require those companies to maintain workers on payroll, while the program for mid-sized businesses fails to include anti-outsourcing provisions or any provisions protecting workers' right to organize. This means that, rather than protect good, family-supporting jobs as you intended, the funds can be used to enrich corporate executives and shareholders without regard for workers, the letter read.<>
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. We can scream all we want.
Until the NLRB is up to full Members and we have control of that board,well,you and I are screwed royally.
OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)3. How many of them were dumb enough to vote for Trump?
My apologies to those with a brain and realized he was not the right candidate for labor!