Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
Airline and airport workers are organizing and striking this holiday season. Earlier this week, the European budget airline Ryanair agreed to recognize cabin crew and pilot unions who were threatening a strike. Now, Ryanair is under investigation by at least two parliamentary committees for its treatment of workers, who have reported being charged fees for basics like uniforms and have alleged that the airline is skirting minimum wage laws.
Some food service workers at O’Hare walked off the job yesterday. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, have been working on an expired contract since August and want their employer, HMSHost, to provide higher wages and more affordable heath care.
Meanwhile, Jet Blue flight attendants filed for a union election earlier this month. Sarah Jaffe analyzes the organizing drive for the New Republic. At Dissent‘s Belabored podcast, Jaffe and co-host Michelle Chen talked to Transportation Workers Union international president John Samuelson about the Jet Blue effort.
The Communication Workers of America and several workers sued several companies, including Amazon and T-Mobile, in federal court in San Francisco for targeting employment ads on Facebook at only younger workers. The suit alleges that the practices violated California age discrimination laws. Experts speculate that the ads may also violate the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
The Atlantic has a feature on the racial effects of automation, which builds on a recent Brookings Institution panel about building an inclusive workforce after digitalization. The article predicts that Latinos will be hardest hit by automation, as robots are likely to spread first to dangerous jobs in which Latinos may be overrepresented.
In its December issue, Seattle Magazine profiles SEIU 775 and its president David Rolf, major forces behind Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law.
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June 4
Federal agencies violate federal court order pausing mass layoffs; Walmart terminates some jobs in Florida following Supreme Court rulings on the legal status of migrants; and LA firefighters receive a $9.5 million settlement for failure to pay firefighters during shift changes.
June 3
Federal judge blocks Trump's attack on TSA collective bargaining rights; NLRB argues that Grindr's Return-to-Office policy was union busting; International Trade Union Confederation report highlights global decline in workers' rights.
June 2
Proposed budgets for DOL and NLRB show cuts on the horizon; Oregon law requiring LPAs in cannabis dispensaries struck down.
June 1
In today’s news and commentary, the Ninth Circuit upholds a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration, a federal judge vacates parts of the EEOC’s pregnancy accommodation rules, and video game workers reach a tentative agreement with Microsoft. In a 2-1 decision issued on Friday, the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration […]
May 30
Trump's tariffs temporarily reinstated after brief nationwide injunction; Louisiana Bill targets payroll deduction of union dues; Colorado Supreme Court to consider a self-defense exception to at-will employment
May 29
AFGE argues termination of collective bargaining agreement violates the union’s First Amendment rights; agricultural workers challenge card check laws; and the California Court of Appeal reaffirms San Francisco city workers’ right to strike.