The library will be open on Sundays beginning September 10th
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| Franklin Public Library will be closed Monday for Labor Day |
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"All Franklin Public Schools will be CLOSED Friday, September 1st, 2023 as well as Monday, September 4th, 2023 (Labor Day).
We will reopen on Tuesday, September 5th, 2023."
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| Franklin Public Schools, MA: No School on Friday, Schools Reopen on Tuesday, Sep 5 |
Robert Reich, author and a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, writes:
"When a public problem is wrongly described, the solutions posed often turn out to be irrelevant or inhumane.A current example: America’s so-called “labor shortage”.Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, says the United States has a “structural labor shortage” that’s unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.The US Chamber of Commerce claims there are over 10 million job openings in the US for which employers can’t find workers.Here’s the truth: there is no labor shortage.There is, however, a shortage of jobs paying sufficient wages to attract workers to fill job openings."
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| ‘If we want more people to take jobs and we wish to live in a decent society, the answer is to pay people more.’ Photograph: Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images |
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| Franklin.TV: A More Perfect Union (audio) |
"EVERY LABOR DAY working people celebrate the countless contributions the labor movement has made to improve the lives of working people. We reflect on the past and present to organize a better future for all.
Right now, working people are frustrated. Many are struggling to afford the basics, much less save for college or retirement. Amidst this, corporate special interests are lining their pockets off the backs of working people. In 2021, the CEO pay at S&P 500 companies rose 18.2 percent, faster than the US inflation rate of 7.1 percent. In contrast, US workers’ wages fell behind inflation, with worker wages rising only 4.7 percent in 2021. This is not “inflation.” It is “greedflation” — when companies take advantage of consumers by using their market dominance to increase prices and boost corporate profits. We’ve seen this with Uber surge pricing during times when people are most desperate for a ride, little of which goes to the actual drivers."
"FIVE OF THE SIX New England states have launched an effort to better coordinate the process of bringing ashore electricity produced by offshore wind farms and feeding the power into the regional grid.Currently, states contract with offshore wind developers and the developers select where they want to bring their power ashore and are responsible for all transmission system upgrades needed to make that happen.The process has gone fairly smoothly so far, with developers picking interconnection points on Cape Cod, in Somerset, and in Rhode Island."
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| "5 New England states seek info on transmission issues" |
The Franklin Municipal Building will be CLOSED on Monday, September 5, 2022 in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.
This also applies to the Library, Senior Center, and all the Schools.
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| Franklin Municipal Building will be CLOSED on Monday, September 5, 2022 for Labor Day |
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| One Day Trash/Recycling Delay during week of Sept 5-9, 2022 |
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The Franklin Public Library will be closed Monday, September 6th for Labor Day.
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| Franklin Public Library Closed on Labor Day - Sep 6. 2021 |
"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day." https://youtu.be/1phe6Pe3djY
If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication: https://forms.gle/oPdi8X3ZbHHyrHzo6
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| Community Calendar |
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| Franklin Residents: Trash Delayed by one day during week of September 6-10, 2021 |
‘The Great Resignation’: June’s US jobs report hides unusual trend
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday (07/02/21) that the US economy added 850,000 jobs last month. Hidden by this encouraging figure is the hint of an unusual trend: people are beginning to quit their jobs in extraordinary numbers.June’s numbers, in combination with last month’s figures, suggest that the economy is continuing to recover at a steady pace. The rate of unemployment was 5.9% and 9.5 million people remain unemployed."
"The national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year – and Native Americans want the site back with a focus on oppressionMount Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to its remote location in South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America’s “shrine of democracy”.Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression.“It should be turned into something like the United States Holocaust Museum,” he said. “The world needs to know what was done to us.”
.@MassAGO @maura_healey's office launches new training video & digital toolkit to help people identify signs of labor trafficking & generate referrals to her office for potential investigation & prosecution.
MMA article to provide context for the new awareness campaign https://t.co/dMFDXPzpZx
From CommonWealth Magazine we share an article of interest for Franklin:
"It’s simple. If the workers who make our economy run aren’t healthy and secure, then our economy isn’t healthy and secure. Especially in the absence of any leadership or plan from the Trump administration, we need Massachusetts leaders to walk the walk when it comes to our workers, and not just talk the talk.
Essential workers need a bill of rights. They deserve hazard pay for the dangerous and critical work they are performing for the public. Everyone agrees on the importance of people with symptoms staying home from work and school, but that should come with the guarantee that nobody will lose their job or the ability to feed their families should they need to stay home.
Essential workers here in Massachusetts, like many of their counterparts in other states, deserve a presumption that if they contract COVID-19 they did so in the line of duty so they are covered by workers compensation. Workers need a reliable place to turn to if they think their workplaces are unsafe, and they need protection from employer retaliation for whistleblowing.
We need comprehensive data collection on the infection rates of workers — by occupation, industry, and employer — which are crucial data points to identify new outbreaks and guide future responses to protect these workers and the public they serve. And we need science, workers, and occupational safety experts to guide how our workplaces and economy reopens, definitely not CEOs. "
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| the home page of Franklin.TV features a link to Franklin Matters |
All Commuter Rail lines will operate on a regular Sunday schedule on Labor Day, Monday September 7.
Please note that there is no Sunday service for the Stoughton and Needham lines.
Last Updated: Aug 24 2020 02:36 PM
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| Franklin Commuter Line: Commuter Rail to run regular Sunday schedule on Labor Day - Sep 7 |
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| Franklin Public Library and Town Offices - Closed on Labor Day |
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"For generations, the career path for smart kids around Detroit was to get an engineering or business degree and get hired by an automaker or parts supplier. If you worked hard and didn’t screw up, you had a job for life with enough money to raise a family, take vacations and buy a weekend cottage in northern Michigan.
Now that once-reliable route to prosperity appears to be vanishing, as evidenced by General Motors’ announcement this week that it plans to shed 8,000 white-collar jobs on top of 6,000 blue-collar ones.
It was a humbling warning that in this era of rapid and disruptive technological change, those with a college education are not necessarily insulated from the kind of layoffs factory workers know all too well.
The cutbacks reflect a transformation underway in both the auto industry and the broader U.S. economy, with nearly every type of business becoming oriented toward computers, software and automation."
The six state measures are based on the same definitions as those published for the U.S.:https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
- U-1, persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force;
- U-2, job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force;
- U-3, total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (this is the definition used for the official unemployment rate);
- U-4, total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers;
- U-5, total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers; and
- U-6, total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.
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| The chart shows the percentage change in employment for selected industries from June 2009, the end of the recession, through August 2017 |
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| Town Offices Closed Monday September 4, 2017 |
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| image from Franklin Liquors Labor Day Sale Newsletter |
