Edward Nasser is a student at Harvard Law School.
The New York Times reports that labor unions are lobbying President Trump to include protection in any new NAFTA agreement from low wage workers lowering American wages. The AFL-CIO has made an extensive set of recommendations to be included in any renegotiated agreement. The unions request that the Trump administration insist that workers at any stage of the production chain be paid a livable wage commensurate with the cost of living where the worker resides.
Continuing with the theme of the day, Bloomberg reports that President Emmanuel Macron of France will be traveling across the European Union to advocate for more protection against low wage workers. Together with his labor reform plan, ensuring high wages for French workers was a central campaign promise for Mr. Macron.
Bloomberg reports that management lawyer John Ring, a partner at Morgan Lewis, is on the short list for appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. His appointment would ensure the first Republican majority in nearly a decade, and will likely result in the board reconsidering a host of Obama era decisions intended to protect workers.
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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.
September 9
Ninth Circuit revives Trader Joe’s lawsuit against employee union; new bill aims to make striking workers eligible for benefits; university lecturer who praised Hitler gets another chance at First Amendment claims.