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One large program, the Skills Development Fund, is Texas' premier job–training program providing training dollars for Texas businesses to help workers learn new skills and upgrade existing skills. TWC also administers the Texas Payday Law, Texas Child Labor Law and Child Care Services. TWC works with 28 Local Workforce Development Boards to ...
Last month, Texas reached a new historic high by reporting the largest labor force in state history of 15,575,900. Texas also reached a new historic high for the greatest number of Texans working ...
The UPS workers union said the driver passed out due to the heat and was released from the hospital Saturday. August has been a particularly warm month in North Texas , with the region recording ...
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
Between 2011 and 2018, 42 Texans died from heat exposure while working, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU) was established by Antonio Orendain and farmworker leaders of the Rio Grande Valley active with the United Farm Workers after a disagreement with UFW leadership over direction of a melon strike in south McAllen, Texas, in 1975.
A recent report by Oxfam America shows the concentration of people in the country that make less than the recommended living wage.
The ten weeks of the strike were marked with significant violence. Police in Houston, for instance, deputized 56 strikebreakers into the force temporarily, several being former officers allowed to wear their old uniforms, and dock officials imported their own recruits by the busload and hired Frank Hamer to head "a special force of twenty ex-Texas Rangers and sheriffs to prevent sabotage and ...