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National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she complained about her supervisor on Facebook. Read Steven Greenhouse’s New York Times article reporting on the concerted action here. Also, here’s a question we have received at the Workers’ Center: can an employer charge an employee for the credit card [...]
Extend Unemployment Benefits!
Our friends at NELP, the National Employment Law Project, have created a website for job-searching people. called Unemployed Workers. We’re asking you to go there, employed or not, and sign the petition, urging Congress to extend Unemployment benefits for those workers who are threatened with their loss this November 30. According to the site, “Combined [...]
Making Ends Meet
Last Thursday, the Workers’ Center’s Unemployed & Underemployed Support Group welcomed a guest speaker, Helen Ranck of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Helen is the Financial Management Educator at the Tompkins County CCE; she showed our group how to prioritize debt, negotiate with some creditors and how to access your credit report for free. Helen’s expertise showed [...]
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