Today’s News & Commentary – February 26, 2021
Many American workers faced a Hobson’s choice during the pandemic: either return to unsafe workplaces, or refuse to work and lose wages and unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility. To address the dilemma, the Department of Labor directed states on Thursday to begin...
Bargaining for Better Labor Journalism: How The Wave of Unionizing In Media Transforms How Unions Are Covered
Kim Kelly spent nearly two decades covering heavy metal as a journalist, which is how she wound up as the heavy metal editor at the Vice vertical Noisey. But then Vice, like many digital media outlets across the United States since 2015, began unionizing. For...
Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument
At the early outset of his administration, President Biden—in keeping with his pledge to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”—fired the National Labor Relation Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, after Robb—a pro-management Trump appointee and now...
Today’s News & Commentary — February 25, 2020
Municipalities are pressuring supermarkets and grocery chains to raise hazard pay for frontline essential workers. Cities, including Seattle, WA and Long Beach, CA, have passed new rules mandating supermarkets to provide their employees temporary bonus...
Today’s News and Commentary — February 24, 2021
Following Britain’s Supreme Court’s ruling that Uber must classify its drivers as employees in order for them to be provided access to benefits like vacation pay, rest breaks, and a minimum wage, Bloomberg reported on the International Labor Organization’s (ILO)...
Bostock’s Surprise Winner: Intersectional Age Claims
Susan, age 49, has a problem at the restaurant where she works. After waiting tables for years, she now faces termination after her boss deemed her and other older women servers “too old” to continue working there. At the same time, management has made no...
Is Amazon’s $1000 “Quit Offer” an Unfair Labor Practice?
As Jon covers in today's News and Commentary, Amazon has a "voluntary resignation program" through which it pays warehouse employees about $1000 to quit their jobs. According to reporting on the program, this is an annual "offer" that Amazon makes each February to...
An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB
The employee status, and union bargaining rights, of graduate student workers has fluctuated over the last twenty years with the changing of Presidential administrations and the political make-up of the NLRB. But this year is likely to be particularly tumultuous as...
Today’s News & Commentary – February 26, 2021
Many American workers faced a Hobson’s choice during the pandemic: either return to unsafe workplaces, or refuse to work and lose wages and unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility. To address the dilemma, the Department of Labor directed states on Thursday to begin...
Bargaining for Better Labor Journalism: How The Wave of Unionizing In Media Transforms How Unions Are Covered
Kim Kelly spent nearly two decades covering heavy metal as a journalist, which is how she wound up as the heavy metal editor at the Vice vertical Noisey. But then Vice, like many digital media outlets across the United States since 2015, began unionizing. For...
Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument
At the early outset of his administration, President Biden—in keeping with his pledge to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”—fired the National Labor Relation Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, after Robb—a pro-management Trump appointee and now...
Today’s News & Commentary — February 25, 2020
Municipalities are pressuring supermarkets and grocery chains to raise hazard pay for frontline essential workers. Cities, including Seattle, WA and Long Beach, CA, have passed new rules mandating supermarkets to provide their employees temporary bonus...
Today’s News and Commentary — February 24, 2021
Following Britain’s Supreme Court’s ruling that Uber must classify its drivers as employees in order for them to be provided access to benefits like vacation pay, rest breaks, and a minimum wage, Bloomberg reported on the International Labor Organization’s (ILO)...
Bostock’s Surprise Winner: Intersectional Age Claims
Susan, age 49, has a problem at the restaurant where she works. After waiting tables for years, she now faces termination after her boss deemed her and other older women servers “too old” to continue working there. At the same time, management has made no...
Is Amazon’s $1000 “Quit Offer” an Unfair Labor Practice?
As Jon covers in today's News and Commentary, Amazon has a "voluntary resignation program" through which it pays warehouse employees about $1000 to quit their jobs. According to reporting on the program, this is an annual "offer" that Amazon makes each February to...
An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB
The employee status, and union bargaining rights, of graduate student workers has fluctuated over the last twenty years with the changing of Presidential administrations and the political make-up of the NLRB. But this year is likely to be particularly tumultuous as...
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