With summer approaching, construction sounds will be heard across Minnesota. But a regional labor group says on some sites, there s likely to be more exploitation of marginalized workers. The latest analysis from the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center says reliable, family-supporting jobs in construction have fallen by the wayside. .
Some construction companies in North Dakota are paying workers under the table and skipping out on worker benefits to avoid paying taxes, according to local union advocates and data analysis from the University of California Berkeley Labor Center that finds the construction industry may no longer be able to offer workers "family-supporting jobs." Isaac Prieto said he came to North Dakota for higher wages, but eventually discovered his drywall employer was purposefully denying him benefits and even claiming more compensation than he received in order to make illegal payments to other workers. "I was working 70, 80 hours a week," he said. "I never get paid overtime. " .
State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln introduced the bill, saying his goal is to let county leaders set wages that make sense for the local economy and local cost of
A bill that would have created a first-of-its-kind, universal health care system died in the California state legislature on Monday after progressive Democrats failed to secure the necessary support for the legislation.
California is the first state to let some adult children add their parents as dependents on their insurance plans, a move advocates hope will cover the small population of people living in the country illegally who don’t qualify for other assistance programs. The trend nationally has been to let children linger on their parents’ health…