The New York State Senate is poised to pass an employee-friendly bill that would amend New York’s lien law to enable employees to, upon filing a wage claim, obtain a temporary lien.
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Elisabeth Dmitrieff arrived in Paris on the tenth day of the Paris Commune. The 20-year-old Russian socialist feminist immediately contacted members of the Commune government. She then met with women labor leaders. Sent from London as an emissary of Marx and the General Council of the International Workingmen’s Association, once Dmitrieff assessed the revolutionary situation; rather than merely reporting back to London, she decided to put her theoretical studies and organizational experience into action. Two weeks later, on April 11, she posted and published an “
Appel aux citoyennes de Paris.” It called women to battle, announcing that “Paris is blockaded, Paris is bombarded, women citizens…to arms! The nation is in danger!”
Offloading salmon in Petersburg, Alaska. Jessica Hathaway photo.
It’s hard to peg exactly when the average commercial fisherman first hauls in their first catch. It’s a family-dominated industry, after all, and everyone knows someone who’s been fishing since they were just out of diapers.
But if we’re talking about when a career starts in earnest, generally federal labor law and state labor law agree: You can start working when you’re 14, given certain carve outs for the amount of hours you can work and making sure you go to school. Once you’re 16, you’re basically free to work as much as you want, though you need a waiver from the Commission of Labor in Alaska, for example, if you want to work all seven days in a week.