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  • Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized

    March 17, 2025 |

    WECB |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    Nearly 90% of Icelandic workers enjoy a four-day, 36-hour workweek, with no loss in pay compared to the traditional 40 hours. Despite initial concerns about a drop in productivity, reports indicate that productivity remained stable and even increased in some sectors. The four-day workweek also leads to less stress and improved work-life balance, and countries like Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom are currently testing four-day pilots.

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  • How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

    December 19, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

    GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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  • These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.

    September 19, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    The PhiferCares Clinic and pharmacy offers its employees and their families free healthcare and prescriptions. Phifer, a global manufacturing company, opened the clinic five years ago as a way to prevent medical bills from driving coworkers into debt and keeping them from retirement. This no-cost access to healthcare has helped 90% of Phifer employees hit their retirement goals, up from about 75% five years ago.

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  • 'We could start to move the needle': Iowa offers model for fixing Mass. child-care crisis

    October 15, 2023 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    After the COVID-19 pandemic weakened an already fragile child-care industry, Iowa created an incentive program offering grants to help businesses build their own child-care centers or purchase slots in existing facilities. So far, the state has awarded more than $75 million, which has helped create nearly 11,000 new child-care slots.

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  • 5 Lessons from UPS Workers' Successful Bargaining

    August 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    In what is being called the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the company’s history, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to an agreement with UPS over contract negotiations. This agreement is serving as evidence of the efficacy of unions and how they can work to achieve better working conditions, benefits and increased wages.

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  • How one CT business began providing free housing to workers

    August 02, 2023 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Due to a state-wide housing shortage, the Friends Center for Children in New Haven, Connecticut, purchased and refurbished housing units for its teachers and their families to live in for free. This bonus to teachers' salaries helps attract and retain employees, a difficult task in the industry.

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  • Why Michigan is repaying student loans for some mental health workers

    July 17, 2023 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    MI Kids Now is a student loan reimbursement program that aims to entice more people to stay in the mental health care field, particularly in underserved areas, by helping to pay down providers’ student loan debt. In 2022, the state paid $4.4 million to 315 mental health providers who carried an average of $314,000 in student loan debt per person.

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  • Filling the mind-body gap: Fast-growing profession bridges mental, physical health needs

    July 17, 2023 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) is a role that combines the medical expertise of a nurse with mental health training. PMHNPs undergo special certification to combine the two fields and help ease the strain on the mental health workforce, which has been significantly depleted since the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that PMHNPs will be the fastest-growing profession over the next decade and several universities are obtaining grants to boost their PMHNP programs, providing stipends for those who want to earn the certification.

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  • Temple University's successful grad student strike offers lessons for academic labor organizers

    May 02, 2023 |

    The Real News Network |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A 42-day strike coordinated by the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association resulted in a new contract that raised wages and eliminated the previous wage system among other improvements to the student workers’ benefits.

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  • Wyoming teachers are leaving. The reasons why may be about more than money.

    March 28, 2023 |

    Casper Star-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Monte Vista, Colorado

    Teachers are leaving the profession at high rates in the United States, citing a lack of support, stress, and low pay. Therefore, increasing support from administrators and focusing on teachers’ overall well-being might increase their likelihood of continuing to teach.

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