This is partially based on articles published in Workers World newspaper to commemorate International Working Women’s Day. 009, March 28, 2010, and March 9, 2011. New information has been added. “This is partially based on articles previously published in Workers World newspaper to commemorate International Working Women’s Day. New information . . .
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NLRB ruling seeks to kill joint-employer doctrine Following a similar Department of Labor rule issued Jan. 12 (WW, Jan. 23), the National Labor Relations Board weighed in on Feb. 25 with a new legal regulation that makes it harder to prove that corporations are responsible when franchise owners or contractors . . .
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By Jamie McQuaid Detroit (Jamie McQuaid is the History Department union steward for Graduate Employees Organizing Committee-AFT Local 6123.) On Feb. 26, nearly 100 lecturers, graduate instructors, students and allied workers marched through Wayne State University’s main campus in Detroit to protest the mass firing of lecturers, who are nontenured . . .
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By Manlio Dinucci Published in the Italian web newspaper, Il Manifesto, March 3. Translation by John Catalinotto. The United States has raised the coronavirus (COVID-19) alert for Italy to level 3 (“avoid nonessential travel”), bringing it to 4 (“do not travel”) for [the northern regions of] Lombardy and Veneto — . . .
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