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Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) discusses the current state of the General Motors strike and its impact on the economy. The United Auto Workers board voted on Saturday to bump up workers’ strike pay by $25 a week and allow them to take part-time jobs and still qualify for the benefit. The decision comes as the …

Health and wellness tips for gig workers. Getty Many gig workers go to an employer/client workplace to fulfill their contracted tasks. And as gig workers they are not normally covered by an employer’s health or accident insurance, nor are they eligible for sick leave or pay. In fact, a recent survey of on-site gig workers …

The County of Santa Barbara just secured a $2.1 million grant to fund two new “co-response” teams in addition to the one that’s been operating for the past year. Co-response is the term used when law enforcement officers and mental-health case workers go out on patrol together, and the new grant will provide two Sheriff’s …

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A new state program will help prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs that Ohio employers need to fill. On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted discussed the new TechCred program while touring Kiraly Tool and Die Inc. at 1250 Crescent St. He said that no matter the industry, technology impacts …

NASA Will Send Your Name To MarsNASA is allowing the public to sign up to have their name sent on a microchip in the next Mars mission. 2 days ago Home Videos Released Of Missing New Jersey GirlCBS’ Cleve Bryan has the latest on the new videos released of Dulce Maria Alavez, as authorities looking …

FLINT (WJRT) – (9/27/19) – Temporary workers, wages, and health care have been major topics at the bargaining table. But so has job security. It all has to do with the future of technology that has been creeping into our vehicles for more than a decade. First it was robotics on the assembly line. Now, …

LONDON (Reuters) – Community health workers in India and Uganda are to be armed with smartphones and tablets that use data analytics, risk maps and social media trends help to save the lives of mothers and their babies. FILE PHOTO: A baby girl cools off as her mother (not pictured) fills the tub with water …

Now the future of those benefits is at the heart of an emerging split among 2020 Democratic candidates over how to remake American health care. Former Vice President Joe Biden says union members shouldn’t have to give up their employer plans if they like them, while Sen. Bernie Sanders is arguing that union workers would …

Forty-six thousand General Motors employees are heading back to the picket lines for the fifth day of a national strike the likes of which GM hasn’t experienced since before its government-subsidized bankruptcy more than a decade ago. The strike by the United Auto Workers union hasn’t yet imposed crippling economic costs. But if negotiations between …

GM revealed that health care benefits for those on strike will soon come to an end, meaning the union will be forced to pick up the tab for COBRA coverage. Sanders, who has faced criticism over how his “Medicare for All” plan would impact unions and their negotiated benefits, argued that if his plan were …