[Smlr_net] April 7, 2021

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management*

*APRIL 7, 2021*

*Title:* Garment Workers Who Lost Jobs in Pandemic Still Wait for Severance Pay

*Source:* The New York Times

*Author:* Elizabeth Paton

*Date:* April 6, 2021

*Summary:* A new report says millions of dollars in wages have been withheld from garment workers around the world by factories contracted by major fashion brands.

*Link:* https://nyti.ms/3cUY74k

*Title:* 24% of Unemployed Workers Have Been Jobless for Over a Year

*Source:* CNBC

*Author:* Greg Iacurci

*Date:* April 6, 2021

*Summary:* Nearly a quarter of all unemployed workers in the U.S. have been out of work for at least a year, a stretch of joblessness dating to the early days of the Covid pandemic. The dynamic speaks to persistent — and rising — long-term joblessness even as the national unemployment rate falls. That divergence is unusual during downturns and highlights the unequal (or K-shaped) nature of the recovery, economists said.

*Link:* https://cnb.cx/3rY6VKU

*Title:* 1,100 Coal Miners Go on Strike in Northern Alabama

*Source:* Payday Report

*Author:* Mike Elk

*Date:* April 5, 2021

*Summary:* It was the first time UMWA coal miners went on strike at the gigantic mine complex in 40 years. For more than 100 years, the mineworkers union in Northern Alabama has been racially integrated and in this part of rural Alabama, nearly one-third of the workers in the coal mine is Black.

*Link:* https://bit.ly/3cTXeJs

*Title:* The Labor-Rights Legislation That Could Make Medicare for All a Reality

*Source:* The New Republic

*Author:* Natalie Shure

*Date:* April 6, 2021

*Summary:* The most monumental pro-labor legislation since the 1930s is a few co-sponsors shy of a majority in the Senate, and it’s tough to overstate what a big deal that is: The Protect the Right to Organize Act promises to largely revert the United States back to the friendlier New Deal era of labor law, before postwar Republican majorities moved to significantly tamp down organized labor with the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act.

*Link:* https://bit.ly/3fLEFcd

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