Tomorrow is the Aspen Global Leadership Network Action Forum! The 2024 #McNultyPrize Winners will share captivating insights from their leadership journeys. Speaking collectively for the first time, they will detail how they are tackling their communities’ toughest challenges.

In this webinar on Sept 4, 2-3:15pm EDT, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program and Workshop will share insights from the "Toolkit: An Organizer’s Guide to Executive Action." Let's advance #JobQuality and worker rights together. as.pn/workerrights

The #NABJ interview raises a troubling question: What’s wrong with the rest of the media? Read Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin The Washington Post

"Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future", gathers insights from labor, business, academia, philanthropy, and think tanks to take stock of the past decade and attempt to divine what the next one has in store. aspeninstitute.org/programs/back-…

"Manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and environmental problems that are almost always better addressed more directly through regulation and redistribution." Read Emily Merchant & Win Brown in The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/the-problem-wi…

Appropriations House Democrats led by Rosa DeLauro kept this loophole for deadly workplaces out of the DOL spending bill for several years, but Republicans in the Senate kept adding it back. sheboyganpress.com/story/news/loc…

"How Tim Walz Saved Workers’ Lives and Limbs" Must-read by Jordan Barab David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social who headed OSHA under Obama. prospect.org/labor/2024-08-…

UPS driver in Texas passes out while driving un-air conditioned truck, due to heat illness, veers into oncoming lane and crashes into a tree. Heat can kill, but not just from heat stroke. It can cause other potentially deadly workplace incidents as well. fox4news.com/news/mckinney-…

Today, Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS launched “Building Worker Power in Cities and States,” a policy toolkit for state and local action. The exciting policy ideas highlighted in the toolkit serve as a testament to the innovative spirit and energy in the labor movement. clje.law.harvard.edu/building-worke…

The hardest jobs are often the lowest paid jobs. For example: ➡️ Childcare Workers ➡️ Housekeepers ➡️ Home Health Aides ➡️ Personal Care Aides ➡️ Farmworkers #RaisetheWage

.Maureen Conway "Work isn't working for people all across the United States. It's not working for the food workers who can't afford food ... hard work isn't fulfilling the promise of a decent life & it's going to take the efforts of many to turn things around" #JobQuality

Trump’s claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is deeply unserious. This policy would be incredibly easy to game. How? 1/

Employers could (and would) easily switch salaried, overtime-ineligible workers to hourly—and set the hourly wage so that, with overtime, they are paying no more than they paid before—and allow their workers to get the tax cut. 2/

I’m supporting Ballot Measure 1 to raise Alaska’s minimum wage and enable workers to earn paid sick time because it will help our businesses and communities thrive. - Owner of Waffles and Whatnot, Anchorage Daily News Anchorage Daily News #RaisetheWage #PaidSickDays adn.com/opinions/2024/…

🆕For Forbes: Big move in science and labor policy. The U.S. National Science Foundation & AFL-CIO ✊ signed a historic MoU to elevate worker voice in R&D and workforce training: forbes.com/sites/shalinjy… Liz Shuler NSF Director Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 FYI: Science Policy News Mary Alice McCarthy Maureen Conway New America #scipol

"Some of them are working, just not in their chosen professions." That's the key point--there are plenty of jobs, but not very many #goodjobs #JobQuality #MakeBadJobsBetter wsj.com/tech/personal-… via The Wall Street Journal

Just posted about opportunities to donate to help the many still struggling in Western NC in the wake of #Helene H/T to #JobQuality Fellows Jess Kutch Coworker.org & Sara Chester of Industrial Commons linkedin.com/posts/maureen-…

I'm happy to be a part of this. Hope folks will leave here and find me at BlueSky Maureen Carrigg.bsky.social

As a former member of the WaPo editorial board (Dec 2021 to Sept 2024), I was stunned by the news today not to endorse. I am one of 10 Post columnists (so far) who signed this joint statement tonight: “The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the