Author Archives: Jason Perlman

Jeremy Sprinkle June 2, 2017 Non-compete agreements and their increasing use by employers in low-wage and skilled trades industries was the topic of discussion on Wednesday, when the North Carolina State AFL-CIO held its first-ever Facebook Live chat with experts ...

This month, Brown sent Trump a four-point plan for securing the best deal for American workers in renegotiating NAFTA. “Today we are one step closer to providing long overdue relief for Ohioans hurt by NAFTA,” said Brown. “I’ve been clear ...

Donald Trump likes to occasionally pretend he doesn’t 100 percent hate unions, usually by spending time with the relatively friendly building trades unions. But for anyone tempted to believe that, check out one of the people on his short list ...

Josh Mandel has had an inauspicious start in his second run for U.S. Senate. Only last week, his own Republican party leadership added an amendment to the state budget to restrain his advertising budget and prevent him from again spending ...

2017 Executive PayWatch report highlights corporate pay inequality in Ohio and across the country www.PayWatch.org CEO pay for major Ohio companies continues to be egregiously inflated when compared to the wages of the average worker in the state, according to ...

It’s embarrassing when a state officeholder has to be stopped from abusing taxpayer funds with a measure inserted into state law, by his leaders of his own political party, in a public smackdown. The budget passed by the House this ...

April 28th is Workers Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember and honor those who have lost their lives on the job in the past year.  In recognition of this solemn occasion, labor groups have planned a number of ...

Of all the attacks on our civil society, the attacks on evidence-based science pose perhaps the greatest existential threat. Decisions being made about climate science and environmental protection at this critical time will shape the future of our planet. Advances ...

On April 17, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) convened a roundtable with northeast Ohio workers at the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor in Cleveland to hear from Ohio workers about their priorities as the Administration moves to renegotiate NAFTA. ...

Join United Students Against Sweatshops and activists around the world who want to know—what is Nike trying to hide? Nike, the gargantuan apparel brand that racked in more than $32 billion in revenue in 2016 alone, is dismantling critical protections for ...