Tag: AFSCME

Celebrating Champions for Working People at the 13th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration

June 16, 2017

  On Tuesday night, labor rights leaders, advocates, and allies came together at Jobs With Justice Education Fund’s 13th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration. This event honors outstanding leaders who have upheld Eleanor Roosevelt’s belief that workers’ rights are human rights. Each of the three remarkable recipients, Paul… Read More»

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Consumers Make the Case for Home-Care Provider Training

April 2, 2015

A new report released by researchers at Rutgers University Center for Women and Work breaks new ground in studying the growing field of care work by asking home-care consumers to define “quality” care and describe how care-worker training affects the quality of care they receive. Through interviews with both care… Read More»

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Saving Time, Money and Jobs: Public Employees Improve Government Through Labor-Management Collaboration

January 22, 2014

Public employees and their unions are frequent scapegoats when elected officials seek to score political points or contract out government services. But despite what you may have read, there are many examples of productive labor-management relations in the public sector. A new report released by the Jobs With Justice Education… Read More»

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