Vivian Dong is a student at Harvard Law School.
AT&T West, DirecTV West, and the Communications Workers of America, District 9 reached a tentative labor agreement on Friday. The labor agreement would cover 17,000 workers in California and Nevada for four years. This contract is the first union contract for DirecTV workers, as DirecTV was bought out by AT&T in 2015. The terms of the agreement are available here. They include a 3.0% wage increases upon ratification, with further increases down the line.
In response to an admission last week by Uber that it had made a mistake calculating commissions for its New York City drivers, costing them tens of millions of dollars overall, two drivers in a proposed class action asked U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis to reconsider his dismissal of their breach of contract claim against Uber, arguing that the admission counts as new evidence. Uber then asked the court to reject the request to reconsider. Uber had miscalculated drivers’ commission by mistakenly including state sales tax in the total fare charged to customers. Uber states that it will return to the drivers the full amount owed plus interest.
Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta will testify on the Department of Labor’s fiscal budget request for 2018 this Wednesday before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. However, much of the questioning is expected to focus instead on Secretary Acosta’s refusal to delay the June 9 implementation of the Obama-era fiduciary rule, a decision he announced last week. Secretary Acosta explained that he could find no legal justification for delaying the rule, though he is looking into potential changes to the rule.
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September 16
In today’s news and commentary, the NLRB sues New York, a flight attendant sues United, and the Third Circuit considers the employment status of Uber drivers The NLRB sued New York to block a new law that would grant the state authority over private-sector labor disputes. As reported on recently by Finlay, the law, which […]
September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.