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Maine AFL-CIO Calls for Immediate Relief for Laid-Off Workers & Structural Change to Unemployment System

Maine AFL-CIO Calls for Immediate Relief for Laid-Off Workers & Structural Change to Unemployment System

Ahead of today’s hearing of the Labor and Housing committee on Unemployment, the Maine AFL-CIO called on the Maine Department of Labor to provide immediate relief to laid-off workers and others who are out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic and forced to go without income for weeks while they wait
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Coronavirus at Work: Safety Inspectors Reviewing Scores of Employee Hospitalizations, Deaths

“For all workers, the toll of COVID-19 infections and deaths is mounting and will increase even more rapidly as workers return to work without necessary safety and health protections,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote in the letter, which listed dozens of members who have died f

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Unions, advocates say Trump putting meat packing workers at risk

The national union that represents workers in meatpacking and food processing jobs, the United Food and Commercial Workers, says the administration should enact enforceable standards instead of guidance that requires protections like protective equipment, physical distancing, daily testing for wo

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