Presidential candidate and Former Vice President Joe Biden is hearing frustrations from a key union in his backyard: the AFL-CIO’s Philadelphia branch. According to NPR, the AFL-CIO is holding a forum in mid-September, and seven presidential candidates have c... More »
On Thursday, Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke released a plan to strengthen unions and boost workers’ wages. O’Rourke’s plan, which he calls “A 21st Century Labor Contract,” includes extending collective bargaining rights to more public sector ... More »
ICE agents raided companies across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting about 680 undocumented immigrants in what might be the largest worksite enforcement action ever in a single state. The facilities raided included four poultry plants; the New York Times re... More »
More than 1.3 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past decade as a result of private equity ownership in retail, according to a new report from nonprofits and worker advocacy groups. This number includes 600,000 retail workers and 728,000 workers in... More »
The California Supreme Court will rule on whether its landmark Dynamex decision applies retroactively. In Dynamex v. Operations West, the court previously held that the appropriate test for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor is the “ABC... More »
Yesterday, the American Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) program. The lawsuit alleges that PSLF is so dysfunctional that it violates federal law and the Fifth Amendment ... More »
The Democratic debates kicked off this week on Wednesday and Thursday, and POLITICO reports that all of the candidates support raising the federal minimum wage to $15, except for two. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet supports raising the hourly federal minimum to... More »
The upcoming Supreme Court term could be “the term of ERISA,” according to Bloomberg. The justices have already agreed to hear two cases involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and could hear up to four. In Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committ... More »
Five senators signed on to a letter by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) calling on McDonald’s to require franchisees to implement its newly updated harassment policies. The letter points out that “independently owned operations make up the vast majority of the o... More »
Yesterday, JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement in a class-action case brought by a father who was denied the company’s 16 weeks of parental leave on the grounds that he was not the “primary caregiver.” The company will pay $5 million into a fund t... More »
In a regulatory filing with the SEC on Thursday, Uber reported that it has reached agreements that will end a “large majority” of the over 60,000 arbitration claims drivers have filed alleging misclassification as independent contractors, rather than employees... More »
On Thursday, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which seeks to strengthen workers’ rights to organize and bargain. Some of the bill’s highlights: Amending the definition of employee to prevent misclassificatio... More »
September 1st, 2019