Just one more reason to oppose the rise of 401(k)s.
A fair day’s wage
● "You're fired!" The abuses of "skilled worker" visa programs.
● America’s biggest meat producer averages one amputation per month.
● A Pennsylvania nurses union has grown nearly 40 percent in weeks. Labor Notes takes a look at that stunning story.
● Workday Minnesota is putting the focus on wage theft.
● Looking over to England, staff at Kensington Palace might go on strike over a schedule change that would leave some workers earning below living wage.
Education
● What's the point of expanding charters in Massachusetts?
● The mother of the student whose teacher berated her on video speaks.
● What Success Academy's student enrollment patterns tell us about the no-excuses charter chain. And here's more:
A Guardian analysis has found that Success Academy loses children between the third and fourth grade, the first two years of New York state testing, at a rate four times that of neighboring public schools. Success lost more than 10% of its enrolled student population from grade to grade, compared with the average rate of 2.7% at public schools in the same building or nearby during the same years.