Today in 2008 The Great Recession hits high gear when the stock market falls to its lowest level since 1997.
• How labor can win at the bargaining table • Labor groups, business teaming in high-speed rail push • How business weakened COVID workplace protections • Striking Alabama miners are done playing nice • Here’s how quickly the heat can dehydrate you • It takes 300 worker salaries to equal average CEO’s pay • Biden signs executive order that will help private-sector workers get wage gains • A first: Teamsters union reached agreement on contract with XPO • Teamsters applaud confirmation of next Deputy Sec. of Labor, Julie Su • Frito-Lay Workers on strike against 84-hr. work weeks, puny raises • Aviation maintenance scholarships available to Teamsters and their families
