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Labor organizing in the Ohio Valley goes beyond coal
By: Katie Meyers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ELKVIEW, W.Va. (OVR) — In late December, West Virginia union members and supporters gathered in the small town of Elkview, about 20 minutes outside of Charleston. Dozens of linemen, coal miners, educators, plumbers and others lined up by the side of the road in front of Tudor’s Biscuit World to show their support for the… Read More
Ohio’s minimum wage increases again on January 1, 2022
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s minimum wage is increasing/has increased on January 1st to $9.30 an hour. That’s 50 cents more an hour than in 2021. Still, Policy Matters Ohio Executive Director Hannah Halbert said the new minimum wage is about half of what low-wage workers need to actually be able to afford… Read More
How employers can win workers back (and keep them) after the ‘Great Resignation’
By: Jonaki Mehta | NPR
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (NPR) — In the wee hours of a Saturday morning this past June, Mary Waters pulled into a grocery store parking lot in St. Louis. It was where she had been working for more than a year, stocking the freezer section. “I sat in the parking lot, and I tried to will… Read More
Study Links Increased COVID-19 Transmission To Poultry Plants Allowed To Operate Faster
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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HENDERSON COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) — A study published Thursday in a prestigious scientific journal links significant increases in COVID-19 transmission rates to meatpacking plants, especially those facilities that the federal government has allowed to speed up processing lines. Researchers found evidence that linked meatpacking plants to a “high potential for community spread” in the surrounding… Read More
Ohio Employers Will Have Wait For Workers Comp Settlement
By: Associated Press
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Thousands of employers in Ohio who have been overcharged for workers compensation insurance premiums will have to wait at least a few more weeks before collecting a share of the $420 million court settlement. Stuart Garson, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, tells The Columbus Dispatch that distributions probably will go out in the first half… Read More
Ohio Protests Carry On As Refinery Strike Continues
By: Associated Press
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Workers in northwest Ohio continue to protest as the first nationwide oil refinery strike since 1980 moves into its fourth week. About 200 people demonstrated Tuesday outside the Marathon Petroleum Corp. headquarters in Findlay despite temperatures in the teens. More than 60 workers from the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon near Toledo joined the demonstration, and… Read More