And yet, all summer, as signs in apartment windows across the city thanked essential workers such as those picking up the trash, even as pickup ran days late, workers in Philadelphia took their message to the streets. Union members march down Broad Street at a Defund the Police protest on June 13. Instituted a "joint employer" loophole to allow mega corporations to escape liability for harm to workers and unions carried out by their subsidiaries. Register, Workers' Compensation Exemption/ Compliance, Florida Department of Financial Services © 2012.

While the number of worker complaints received by the city’s Office of Benefits and Wage Compliance has steadily grown, from just 18 in 2018 to nearly 80 in the first half of 2020, those numbers pale in comparison with that of Seattle, widely considered to be a national leader in municipal labor enforcement. While Trump and his allies have targeted union organizing rights, Biden recently endorsed a campaign by 1,700 RNs at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. to join an NNU affiliate. But nurses know there's one issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention, although it impacts the health and safety of our patients across the country: labor and workers' rights. Despite all this activity, significant challenges remain. Allow employers to more easily suspend or evade union contracts, including the ability to make unilateral cuts to workers' pay, benefits, and working conditions, and impose unfair discipline, including termination. Please help keep Common Dreams alive by making a contribution. Curtailed the collective bargaining rights of federal employees. We don't want advertising dollars. Low-wage service workers, both union and nonunion, wield increasing political power. Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. And as the pandemic made workers’ struggles more visible than ever, the Black Lives Matter protests caused many to link the fight for racial justice to the fight for labor rights. Every donation—large or small—helps us bring you the news that matters. Now, they want to unionize. Helping her was Raven Wylde. We assist injured workers, employers, health care providers, and insurers in following the Florida workers’ compensation rules and laws. There are many reasons nurses believe President Trump is hazardous to our health, from his abysmal failure to stop the spread of Covid-19 to his authoritarian behavior.

Seventy workers at six low-income health centers run by Public Health Management Corp. (PHMC) organized last year, as did 90 media professionals at the public radio station WHYY and the city’s 200 public defenders. In July, after more than a year of organizing, Free Library of Philadelphia workers ousted the organization’s director whom they said had failed Black employees. A new class of workers also has turned to unions: They’re largely young, have higher degrees, and work at mission-driven organizations. In 1979, the union membership rate was 27%. But during the pandemic, the kind of union activism she and her coworkers did shifted. Philadelphia is still very much a labor town. While the Division is not responsible for adjusting any claims, we are a resource to help ensure that claims are being adjusted and reimbursed properly.
Is that possible? Enacted a Congressional resolution to overturn a requirement employers maintain accurate records on workplace injuries and illnesses. Let's break down how Trump has hurt working people—especially our Black, Brown, and Indigenous patients. Hamper the ability of unions to organize.

The 2018 Janus Supreme Court decision attacked worker protections by encouraging public workers to evade financial support for their unions.
Notably, Biden has endorsed a major labor priority, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), the most expansive strengthening in many years of federal labor protections for union organizing. Because of people like you, another world is possible. Now, they want to unionize. And they want to be able to serve their clients better.

Trump, corporate America's BFF, was never going to reverse that. As the spreadsheet started making the rounds, workers who previously hadn’t dared to break the code of silence around money were suddenly discussing unpaid internships, the industry’s reliance on contract labor, and disparities in salary across their departments. But public support for unions is high: 65% of Americans, according to a Gallup poll, the highest approval rating in nearly two decades. “We have always emphasized that if any staff cannot completely clean their assigned rooms, they should contact their manager, and we will work with them,” spokesperson Kellie McCrory said. We want the world to be a better place. » READ MORE: Philly restaurant workers are organizing for higher wages and better work conditions despite the pandemic. “Setting salaries and ensuring that the compensation that the museum offers to its employees is equitable and competitive is something we have always taken very seriously, and we continue to do so,” the spokesperson said. Common Dreams is not your normal news site. Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Museum leadership didn’t seem to have anything to say. When the housekeepers at the Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse Square got called back to work during the pandemic, they quickly realized that, given the new COVID-era realities, it was impossible to clean their allotted 12 or 13 rooms a shift. The bill passed the House in February, but the Senate has refused to even hold hearings on it. The law was the latest in a series of protections won by low-wage workers in recent years. Highly educated workers at seemingly progressive institutions are turning to unions as a way to ensure their employers live out their values. Among the most sweeping rollback of federal labor law rights in years are changes that: Former Vice President Biden, who has a history of support for unions, offers a pronounced difference. It was how the museum responded to it. Rather than being a champion of workers, he has acted as a champion of libertarian, far-right ideologues, legislators, donors, and think tank allies.

These campaigns have contributed to a citywide union membership rate that’s well above the national average: Before COVID, 16% of Philadelphia workers were union members, according to the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. Employers spend millions to stop union campaigns. This dynamic — flashy legislative wins hampered by a lack of education and enforcement — is why some labor organizers and workers have increasingly focused on bolstering the city’s Office of Labor. And nearly half of workers say they would join a union if they had the opportunity, according to a 2017 survey from MIT and Cornell. Workers say managers retaliate in other ways, too, such as cutting work hours or threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Attack the right to strike, especially increasingly effective short-term strikes.

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We assist injured workers, employers, health care providers, and insurers in following the Florida workers’ compensation rules and laws. (Its nurses joined PASNAP in 2016, regardless. Common DreamsP.O. But the laws are effective only if there’s widespread awareness and enforcement. Victory: After Three Years of Battling in Court, the Trump Administration Abandons its Policy of Banning Abortion for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors, Top 5 Most Horrible Things Trump Said in His Abnormal Debate, Voting, Ballot Rejection, and Electoral Integrity in the 2020 Election. It was the latest in a series of union campaigns at Philadelphia nonprofits. Under the sun and in the rain, workers called for hazard pay and personal protective equipment, for an extension of pandemic unemployment benefits, for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black people killed by police. “Those are powerful feelings, but the next step is how to act on that.”. Under Scalia, OSHA has resisted the call by National Nurses United and other unions to require employers to implement safer hospital standards during the pandemic, including providing lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE) at a time when more than 1,500 health care workers including more than 200 registered nurses have died from COVID-19. Because of people like you, another world is possible. “It was about patients.”. Posters in West and South Philly show support for sanitation workers. "Biden has endorsed a major labor priority, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), the most expansive strengthening in many years of federal labor protections for union organizing. The group was demanding legislation that would provide PPE, essential pay and extended unemployment benefits. And a Unite Here union campaign was underway at the biggest hotel in the state, the Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, when COVID-19 hit, causing hospitality workers to be laid off en masse and throwing the future of the union campaign into uncertainty.

Limit bargaining rights and information unions can request from employers. “People are seeing the power of direct action to effect change.”. If you can help today—because every gift of every size matters—please do. The bill passed the House in February, but the Senate has refused to even hold hearings on it.". After a few months of defying orders, management listened to the housekeepers and lessened their workload. About Us, Workers' comp information and resources for employers, Assistance and information for Florida's injured workers, Insurance companies, self-insured employers, QSE, Information for Florida's Health Care Providers, Claims EDI, Medical EDI, and Proof of Coverage EDI, To receive important Division notices, register for In a rare legal move amidst the ongoing unraveling of law enforcement's narrative about the murder of Breonna Taylor - a false claim of no body cam footage, an A.G. who failed to consider a homicide charge and used the Grand Jury as "a shield," God knows what else - a judge has granted the request of an anonymous juror their Grand Jury proceedings be made public.

These laws have become a core strategy in Philadelphia and elsewhere as organizers focus on workers who don’t have access to unions because they’ve been excluded from federal labor law or otherwise face major hurdles to unionizing. They want more of a say in how the organization is run. “They didn’t take that opportunity,” Cook said, “so we had to do it ourselves.”. "The list of Trump's anti-worker decisions is endless!".