Here’s what workers in the US South and the colonies were up to from June 20 to July 4 All information on Florida’s public sector union elections comes from McKenna Schueler’s monthly round up of Florida union news. You can check it out on her website, caringclassrevolt.substack.com, where you can get more information about Florida…
Last Week in Southern Labor
Boss Watch
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Boss Watch: 6/27 – 7/4
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, June 27, and Friday, July 4 Georgia Discriminators 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the southeastern United States, violated federal law by discriminating against a class of employees when it denied them reasonable accommodations and then fired them…
NEWS
Banks are currently free to scam working people thanks to Trump Administration’s attack on the CFPB
“The biggest banks in the country right now are operating lawlessly with zero oversight. They are not having to follow Consumer Protection Laws, or if they are or aren’t, that’s not necessarily known to the regulator, us, who would be there to make sure that’s happening. So if they are starting to do more illegal practices, abusive practices, exploitative practices, preying on the American people, we don’t have insight into that in real-time the way that we’re supposed to, that we’re setup exactly to do.” (READ MORE)