Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a commission to look at improving conditions for workers in the so-called gig economy, where people work job to job with few employment rights.
Workers rights
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Project looks at perils of low-wage work
Work affects people’s health in many ways. Consider, for example, the increasingly clear connection between sedentary jobs and obesity, or the benefits people get from forming bonds with their coworkers. But the impacts can vary from job to job; a CEO works in a much different environment, with different hazards and stresses, than a factory […]
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A new rebellion
It’s a bit odd that in America’s thoroughly corporatized culture we have no national day of honor for the Captains of Industry, and yet we do have one for working stiffs: Labor Day. Where did it come from? Who gave this day off to laboring people? History books that bother mentioning Labor Day at all […]
