Women's eNews (https://womensenews.org/tag/women_workers/)
.jpg)
The full-day meeting explored a range of reforms to benefit working families. But the day also saw federal contractors walk off their jobs to protest the federal government’s role as the largest funder of low-wage jobs for working women and people of color.
Female workers at the big box mega retailer are pressing for more full-time jobs that pay at least $25,000, an amount research published June 2 by Demos finds could lower poverty, close the wage gap and benefit the overall economy.
Thirty-plus years have passed. Now the director of federal contract compliance for the Department of Labor is focused on getting U.S. women a 7-percent piece of all skilled trade jobs performed, a goal first set in 1980.
A recent fire in a garment factory, killing seven women, highlights the daily risks workers confront in this growing industry. One report calls Bangladesh the next hotspot for ready-made clothing.
Female workers at a plastic container factory are calling for a national boycott of Reynolds, the parent company of their former employer, to highlight charges of forced overtime they are bringing in an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board.
Rosalina Miranda works at all hours of the day as a cleaner of warehouses and offices in New Jersey. After 15 years she’s unhappy about never getting a raise. Her best hope could be lawmakers now debating a proposed hike in the state’s minimum wage.
Life isn’t easy for the female migrants continually flowing into Istanbul from Turkey’s Kurdish region. Those who are illiterate or unable to speak Turkish can face particularly intense isolation from basic services.
It’s Equal Pay Day, a time to remember those 600 extra hours that women work each year to catch up with male wages. For female teens exploitation at work is advancing, as GOP lawmakers in several states try to relax child labor laws.