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By Laborpains.org Team This week, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) and its enforcement activities. Labor unions are… Read more »

National Community Pharmacists Association  Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) visited Phillips Pharmacy in Vidalia, Ga., earlier this month to help the team celebrate the pharmacy's 50th anniversary. While there he spoke with pharmacists Angela Phillips Combs, Rusty Combs, Heather Gourley, and Ashley Willis about pressing issues in pharmacy today including Tricare pharmacy network… Read more »

Metals Service Center Institute: There have been several pieces of news this month regarding the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). On November 3, the NLRB issued a draft regulation that would rescind changes the Trump administration had made to procedures for union representation elections. The… Read more »

 Stephen Miller, CEBS Some conservatives are continuing to oppose a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule that would expand the Affordable Care Act's Section 1557 requirement that most health plans not discriminate on the basis of sex. The expanded definition bars discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy termination. The change… Read more »

By Tim Bryant Members of Georgia’s congressional delegation—Democrats and Republicans—have entered into the congressional record a resolution honoring the late Vince Dooley, the former Georgia Bulldog football coach and UGA Athletic Director who died October 28 at the age of 90. The University of Georgia has scheduled November 25 as the date for a public memorial service, an… Read more »

By Staff AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Golden Harvest Food Bank finished renovations on its facility, and we’re getting a look inside. CEO and President of Golden Harvest Amy Breitmann says this project will allow them to invite more volunteers and help more people. “This is not our mission; this is our community’s mission. This is, you know, we want to invite the community in and… Read more »

AL HACKLE/Staff Statesboro Herald U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, R-Georgia 12th District, visited Rolling Monkey Handcrafted Ice Cream in Statesboro last week and talked briefly about business concerns and labor-related legislation with the store’s entrepreneurs. Garrett and Meagan Clark founded the company, which will have been in business four years as of November. The “rolling” part of… Read more »

By MIL-OSI Publisher -October 20, 2022 Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined Congressmen Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), David Schweikert (R-AZ), and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) to introduce the Safeguarding Investment Options for Retirement Act. The… Read more »

By Elizabeth Hustad ehustad@postandcourier.com AUGUSTA — The place where many had been learning to read or to “read better” closed in 2019 for building renovations. The students at Augusta University Literacy Center have been learning solely at its satellite locations – area schools, the public library – until this fall, when the center began serving its clients at 631 Chafee Ave. in… Read more »

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Two Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday urged a federal labor board to abandon its standard that has required most union elections to be held via mail ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and Rick Allen of Georgia in a letter to National Labor Relations Board Chair… Read more »