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Talk about quality, union-made work. When Cedar Point, an amusement park nestled on the banks of Ohio's Lake Erie, wanted to add to its stable of roller coasters a 4,164-foot monster called the GateKeeper, it turned to quality union labor to get the job done. The Sandusky Register reports that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), standing before the coaster's blue tracks, not only said he was proud that so much of its construction used labor from his home state of Ohio, but that it was union labor.
What if when you had a question or a concern about your workplace, you could go somewhere and get answers? Our friends at Working America, AFL-CIO's community affiliate, are launching a new site, www.fixmyjob.com, where every worker will have a resource to get more information or privately raise concerns about workplace issues.For fixmyjob.com to be successful, more information needs to be collected about people who work. Can you take a few minutes to answer some quick questions about your current job, or the last job you had?Fill out the quick survey now to share your story of work and to make sure fixmyjob.com becomes a powerful tool to support workers:go.aflcio.org/fix-my-job
When learning that she would be classified by her employer not as an employee, but as an "independent" contractor, Sara Horowitz decided to do something, not just accept denial of benefits and security from her job. She grew up in a labor-oriented family and even though her position didn't qualify her to join any existing union, she decided to form her own. Horowitz and her work with the Freelancers Union were recently covered in a New York Times article.
A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows states that cut tax rates do worse in terms of economic growth than other states. Numerous Republican governors have pushed for tax cuts under the premise that lower tax rates lead to greater economic growth, but the CBPP study concludes that this premise is wrong.
