Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Friday, July 25, 2014

United Airlines' Outsourcing Jobs to Company That Pays Near-Poverty Wages Is Shameful

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.huffingtonpost.com On October 1, United Airlines is planning to outso...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Detroit $165 million bankruptcy settlement rejected

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Public entity bankruptcies have placed the stability of workers' compensation and other benefits into a grey area. As the Detroit ban...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

In Detroit Ruling, Threats to Promises and Assumptions

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Bankruptcy is utilized by employers as shields against liabilities. Self-Insurance in workers' coesation is one of those liabilities T...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Workers' Compensation Nuclear Option: Detroit officially enters bankruptcy

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The "nuclear option" for a workers' compensation claim is a public entity bankruptcy and Detroit got the Court 's app...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Beyond Fast Food Strikes

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from jacobinmag.com Why the Left shouldn’t write off low-wage strik...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Breaking: Wal-Mart workers on strike, defying firings

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.salon.com Breaking: Wal-Mart workers on strike, defying firin...

Wal-Mart worker: Fired for helping assaulted woman

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.miamiherald.com HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A Michigan man says...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Detroit's Bankruptcy Signals a Failure in Disability Compensation Programs in the US

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The bankruptcy of the city of Detroit reflects not only an economic and social tragedy for America, but it also marks a failure of basic di...