The Hyatt Hurts campaign has some more thoughts about
what working mothers want on Mother's Day. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently sent Hyatt Hotels a letter notifying the hotel chain of
ergonomic risks to housekeepers and recommending Hyatt take steps to reduce the risk.
- The UAW and UNITE HERE join the list of unions lauding President Obama's support for marriage equality.
- Limo service drivers at Town Car International in New York City voted to join the Machinists by a two-to-one margin. The drivers, who are mostly immigrants, work an average of 15 hours a day.
- Burger King is being sued by a former manager of several of its restaurants who claims he was fired after telling a supervisor he's HIV positive.
- What minimum wage buys, then and now.
- The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that employers are liable for anti-gay harassment.
- Warehouse workers rally outside Amazon, with one saying that while he hadn't liked the union at a previous job, "after working at Amazon, I understand what unions are all about."
- The death of a Texas hotel housekeeper who fell down an elevator shaft when the elevator doors opened and she backed in with her cart, not seeing that the elevator, which had not been inspected, was not in fact there, was preventable, a state investigation found.
- Workers at Chicago's O'Hare airport protest for a living wage and job security.
- Florida's Mardi Gras casino fired 10 workers when they tried to form a union.