Hannah Finnie is a writer in Washington, D.C. interested in the intersections of work and culture. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
A new piece in the American Prospect hosts a conversation between Professor Benjamin Sachs and Professor Kate Andrias, about a law review article they recently co-authored. The conversation also features Steve Kest and Bob Kuttner dissecting the content of the article. The piece focuses on various ways to use the law to allow for the building of countervailing power, relying on labor law and past social movements to point to future opportunities.
Workers at two Amazon warehouses have announced their intent to unionize with the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union that successfully sprung up to win the unionization drive at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse. Over in New Jersey, Amazon abruptly canceled its plans to build a hub in Newark after advocacy and outcry by local union and other organizations.
At the federal level, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a new policy to try to counteract a tactic employers frequently use to shut down undocumented workers raising workplace issues: threatening their immigration status. The new policy essentially would allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to grant undocumented workers at a workplace where there is a labor dispute immigration relief. That relief could take different forms – from requesting the DOL’s support for a worker’s petition for deferred action or parole to authorizing their employment.
Finally, over in The Nation, labor reporter Kim Kelly wrote a piece about the Biden administration’s Mine Safety and Health Administration’s new policy to reduce silica, which causes black lung in miners. The policy is mostly aimed at requiring mine operators to increase the safety of miners by reducing the effects of silica and using inspections and targeting repeat offenders to be effective. Workers at the Warrior Met coal mine have been on strike for 15 months in their fight to reach a new contract.
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November 25
In today’s news and commentary, OSHA fines Taylor Foods, Santa Fe raises their living wage, and a date is set for a Senate committee to consider Trump’s NLRB nominee. OSHA has issued an approximately $1.1 million dollar fine to Taylor Farms New Jersey, a subsidiary of Taylor Fresh Foods, after identifying repeated and serious safety […]
November 24
Labor leaders criticize tariffs; White House cancels jobs report; and student organizers launch chaperone program for noncitizens.
November 23
Workers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority vote to authorize a strike; Washington State legislators consider a bill empowering public employees to bargain over workplace AI implementation; and University of California workers engage in a two-day strike.
November 21
The “Big Three” record labels make a deal with an AI music streaming startup; 30 stores join the now week-old Starbucks Workers United strike; and the Mine Safety and Health Administration draws scrutiny over a recent worker death.
November 20
Law professors file brief in Slaughter; New York appeals court hears arguments about blog post firing; Senate committee delays consideration of NLRB nominee.
November 19
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel the collective bargaining rights of workers at the U.S. Agency for Global Media; Representative Jared Golden secures 218 signatures for a bill that would repeal a Trump administration executive order stripping federal workers of their collective bargaining rights; and Dallas residents sue the City of Dallas in hopes of declaring hundreds of ordinances that ban bias against LGBTQ+ individuals void.