May 16th 2021
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Unions in Myanmar have called a general strike after last month’s military coup overthrew the country’s civilian leadership. Since the February 1st coup which overthrew Myanmar’s first democratically elected government in decades, the ruling junta has engaged in a...
Yesterday, Senator Sanders said that he would move to force a vote on a $15 federal minimum wage after advising Democrats to “ignore” the recent Senate parliamentarian decision. As Nikita noted last week, the Senate parliamentarian had previously declared that the...
Yesterday’s headlines were dominated by the ongoing confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) grilled Barrett on, among other things, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2018 decision...
The media is giving so much attention to how the next Supreme Court Justice may affect the continued vitality of Roe v. Wade that voters may not fully appreciate how yet another Donald Trump appointee on the court will cement the Court’s anti-worker tilt for...
On Sunday, September 27, the Little Rock Education Association announced that its member teachers would not be showing up for in-person classes and would instead be switching to virtual learning. The union cited failures of the schools to comply with COVID safety...
Another 860,000 Americans filed for unemployment this week. The total number of filings now stands at 12.628 million, slightly down from last week's 13.385 active claims. As the Center for American Progress reports, about 12 million of the roughly 50 million...
Tens of millions of Americans are still out of work and relying on expanded unemployment benefits, but not all jobless workers are receiving those benefits. And the distribution of unemployment benefits, like so much else about American society, is infected with...
In late April, and for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of Israel decided that a law is unconstitutional because it violated employees’ property rights to their wages. The law in question required that those who employed asylum seekers deduct 20%...
There has been an ironic convergence over the last two years between Brazil and the United States in relation to the law governing trade union financing. The entire public sector and much of the private sector are currently so-called “right to work” in the U.S.,...
Nearly sixty years after the enactment of Title VII, discrimination still pervades the American workplace. Meanwhile, white men continue to dominate the ranks of corporate management. To address (or to give the appearance of addressing) their lackluster workplace...
The agriculture industry is facing labor shortages at farms and food processors as a result of covid-19. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has announced that it would suspend visa processing for Mexican guest workers, which will prevent seasonal and migrant agriculture...
What’s in labor news today? A cursory Google search gives the impression that organized labor is today plagued by fractious infighting. Indeed, there is no shortage of articles highlighting the apparent ideological divisions among labor unions in the face of a...