March 31, 2023 News & Commentary Starbucks faces shareholder pressure for an independent review of worker rights; McDonald's workers appeal lawsuit over no-poach agreements; NYT employees take to twitter over stalled collective bargaining agreement; Seattle becomes the first American city to establish permanent paid sick and safe time benefits for gig workers; and Major League Baseball reaches a tentative collective bargaining agreement with minor league players.
March 17, 2023 News & Commentary Texas committee considers sweeping legislation limiting municipal power; University of Chicago graduate students unionize; Tennessee Nissan technicians reject a unionizing effort; and protestors in France take to the streets after President Macron activates nuclear option to raise retirement age.
March 3, 2023 News & Commentary NLRB General Counsel aims to limit employers' ability to hire temporary replacements during some lockouts; forty-four corporate Starbucks employees sign open letter urging neutrality towards unionization efforts; Senator Sanders plans vote to subpoena Starbucks CEO
February 17, 2023 News & Commentary Marty Walsh announces he will step down, Tesla terminates dozens of Buffalo employees amid an organizing campaign, and the Ninth Circuit prevents California from enforcing a law limiting forced arbitration provisions in employment contracts.
February 3, 2023 News & Commentary New Jersey advances a temp worker rights bill; Johns Hopkins doctoral students join a wave of unionized graduate students; canvassers systematically misrepresented a petition for a veto referendum on the California fast food workers bill; and strikes continue in the UK