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2024 Labor Fest

Join Tarrant County AFL-CIO for Labor Fest. A day to celebrate Labor Day, our National Holiday celebrating working people. The event will have LIVE music, food trucks, a beer garden, and a kid-friendly zone complete with face painting, jump houses, and treats. 

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How States and Cities Can Protect Workers During the Pandemic

Even Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s recent letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, intended to defend his agency’s performance, offers little in terms of real enforcement. The word “guidance” and its variant “guidelines” appear nine times, as well as the observation that “employers are implementing measures to protect workers” (emphasis in original). Absent from the letter: the word “citation.” The word “penalty.”

How States and Cities Can Protect Workers During the Pandemic

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As Businesses Look to Reopen, Democrats and Advocates Want More Rules to Protect Workers

“This isn’t just about infection control, which is how the CDC looks at it, this is about exposure assessment,” said Rebecca Reindel, safety and health specialist with the labor organization AFL-CIO. “You look at how people are exposed. Your main source of exposure is other people and so where you’re mainly running into other people right now is the workplace.”

As Businesses Look to Reopen, Democrats and Advocates Want More Rules to Protect Workers