Today in 2010 President Barack Obama signs a $26 billion bill designed to protect 300,000 teachers, police and others from layoffs spurred by budgetary crises in states hard-hit by the Great Recession.
• Robert Reich: Why the PRO Act is critical • New Hampshire House votes against “right to work” • A simple solution to the labor shortage: Raise wages • Workers are gaining leverage over employers right before our eyes • Lewis Hine, photographer of the American working class • Corporations are co-opting mindfulness to avoid meeting workers’ needs • Amazon fired him. Now he’s trying to organize 5,000 workers in NY • Increase in wages to $15 an hour brings flood of workers to US businesses
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