May 26, 2021 - Smlr_net

26 May 2021


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*May 26, 2021*
*Title:*                    Postal Reform Bill Could Raise Health Premiums
for Federal Workers, Employee Group Warns
*Source:*               Federal News Network
*Author:*               Nicole Ogrysko
*Date:*                   May 25, 2021
*Summary:*          A bipartisan bill designed to bring desired financial
relief to the U.S. Postal Service could have implications for the rest of
the federal workforce, potentially raising health insurance costs for
employees and retirees, an employee advocacy organization warns.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3yH0b8U
*Title:*                    Gender Pay Gap in U.S. Held Steady in 2020
*Source:*               Pew Research Center
*Author:*               Amanda Barroso and Anna Brown
*Date:*                   May 25, 2021
*Summary:*          The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in
the United States over the past 15 years or so. In 2020, women earned 84%
of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of median
hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers. Based on this
estimate, it would take an extra 42 days of work for women to earn what men
did in 2020.
*Link:*                    https://pewrsr.ch/3vpIYPt
*Title:*                   New Head of Largest State Worker Union Won’t
Back Newsom
*Source:*               Associated Press
*Author:*               Don Thompson
*Date:*                   May 26, 2021
*Summary:*          The new president-elect of California’s largest state
employee union said Tuesday that the influential organization won’t back
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to fend off a likely recall election
this fall.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3wzo9kO
*Title:*                    GM Now Says It Will Support Union at New
Battery Factories
*Source:*               PBS NewsHour
*Author:*               Tom Krisher
*Date:*                   May 25, 2021
*Summary:*          General Motors now says it will support efforts by the
United Auto Workers union to organize employees at two U.S. electric
vehicle battery factories that it’s building in Ohio and Tennessee with a
joint-venture partner.
*Link:*                    https://to.pbs.org/34hSckC
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