Labour Day 2017

The average worker today shoulders more risk for her retirement and health care than in past generations, and enjoys less job security as the idea of a job for life has vanished . The traditional bond between employer and employee--in which companies provided job and retirement security in exchange for hard work and loyalty--has eroded so much that young workers today "don't even know what they're missing," says Rick Wartzman, a management expert and author of "The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America," released in May by PublicAffairs.WSJ Conference Board studyThe November 2018 election may be 14 months away, but unions are already revving up for it, especially for governors’ races.ervice Employees Local 199 President Cathy Glasson is so pissed off by the anti-union anti-worker actions of ruling Republicans in both Washington, D.C., and the state capital of Des Moines that she’s thrown her own hat into the multi-candidate Democratic gubernatorial primary. Peoples World