Get Paid for Your Overtime!

A new labor department rule goes into effect July 1, 2024.  The new policy will impact 4.3 million workers who are on salary and so don’t get paid overtime.  If you are one of them or know one of them, listen up. The Labor Department is enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act requirement regarding minimum wage and … Read more

Pro-Labor President Biden Steps In And Averts A National Rail Strike

The Associated Press reports, Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike: President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the pivotal midterm elections. Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the … Read more

Sorry Media, This ‘Weird Economy’ Is Not In A Recession

Real gross domestic product (GDP) had a second consecutive negative quarter and government data showed it down -0.9 percent. This was actually an improvement over the first quarter, which was down at -1.6 percent. But since it marks the second consecutive quarter of negative GDP, it meets the commonly held definition of a recession in … Read more

Sen. Mark Kelly Supports ‘The Overall Goals’ Of The PRO Act

There are three Democratic Senators who have not yet fully committed to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would make improvements to union organizing rights, and end free rider so-called “right to work” laws: Sen. Mark Warner (VA), and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly. Senator Mark Kelly now appears to be … Read more