Article examining the role of unions in the exploitation of workers, focussing in particular on the US car manufacturing industry from the 1930s to 1970s.
The 13th Annual Irish Echo Labor Awards will honor the Labor Leaders or 2023. The contribution of the Irish in America to the cause of labor has been nothing less than immense.
georgia, the democratic senator raphael warnock a squaring off against republican herschel walker. this morning, senator warnock is in atlanta with labor leaders as he tries to get off of the vote. he will have another event later tonight focused on rallying asian american and pacific islander voters. if you need any more proof that this runoff is high stakes, take a look at these staggering early voting numbers. more than 1.8 million early votes have been cast, just a few hundred thousand shy of the mid term early voting numbers from one month ago. keep in mind, that enthusiasm is with the senate balance already decided for the democrats. here is what president biden said last night in boston. we have to win this election. it will give us 51 votes. that changes the dynamic of anybody being able to say that they want to change what we are going to do. it will also bring alongside some republicans. the reason is, republicans are having what we catholic call an
year. that s going to be an interesting narrative as we get to next year. it s good to see you in person. thank you so much. a big fan of yours. i appreciate your time. president biden is expected to sign a bill that would avert a potentially disastrous rail strike. it adopts an agreement the white house negotiated between labor leaders in september. the senate passed the measure last night, but another piece of legislation that would have guaranteed rail workers seven days of paid suck leave failed. joining us now with more is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what more can you tell us? reporter: it s good to be with you. president biden is going to tout the fact, as you just said, that this legislation that the senate passed earlier this week in the house will avert that rail strike. think you can expect to see him really put the focus on what that s going to mean for the economy. that it will avert a potential disaster that he believed would
union leaders and company leaders balanced when they reached this tentative deal. what this deal has is a 24% pay increase over five years. that is retroactive. bonuses that i think come to about $5, 000, and this added paid which i want to distinguish is a day of personal leave which is added to what the workers now get, which is as i understand, it typically up to between three and 12, depending on their seniority and which union there with. these are legitimate concerns that they have about being able to have any of that flexibility. those are among the different things that labor leaders and company leaders weighed as they came to this tentative agreement. now that it s on the table, and that the house has taken that step to advance, we really need the senate to act quickly and get a bill to the presidents desk, knowing that it is not perfect, that none of the parties are completely dissatisfied, or got everything that they want in this compromise, and in this negotiation. but al