April 18, 2023 News & Commentary The Iowa Senate passes a child labor law allowing more minors to work; the White House announces a sweeping executive order to improve child and family care resources; and the WGA authorizes a writers' strike.
March 7, 2023 News & Commentary Studies show an increase in the use of "manager" titles to skirt overtime pay; the Whitney Museum of American Art reaches an agreement with its unionized workers; and a history of forced labor comes to the fore in Korea-Japan relations.
February 21, 2023 News & Commentary Temple Graduate Students reach a tentative agreement and the Department of Labor clarifies the application of the FLSA and the FMLA to remote workers. After three weeks of striking, the Temple Graduate Students Union has reached a tentative agreement with the administration that would increase student stipends over the next three years, but would not […]
February 7, 2023 News & Commentary Alarming reports about labor conditions at Disney World, healthcare workers in San Diego unionize, and a NJ temporary workers' rights bill is signed into law.
January 24, 2023 News & Commentary HLS launches the new Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Lawmakers address construction worker deaths, and Local Progress publishes the local government round up on workers' rights.
January 10, 2023 News & Commentary NYC Nurses continue their 7,000-strong strike but may already be close to a deal, NY voters support increasing the minimum wage, and graduate students at Yale University vote for a union after decades of organizing.
November 29, 2022 News & Commentary President Biden and Congress seek to impose an agreement on rail workers to prevent shut-down despite the workers' rejection of the deal, and workers at Amazon's largest air hub are organizing despite facing enormous corporate opposition.
November 15, 2022 News & Commentary The inner-workings of the Apple retail unionizing campaign are laid out in a recent report and the Eleventh circuit revives a class action lawsuit against Burger King for antitrust violations.
November 1, 2022 News & Commentary Nevada's culinary workers build political power; the labor movement grows in Louisville, Kentucky; and Massachusetts settles child labor law violations at Dunkin stores.
October 4, 2022 News & Commentary An overnight fire at an Amazon warehouse leads to the union’s first collective action: a sit-in in the break room followed by a “march on the boss.” A recent study published by Princeton researchers attributes plateauing income inequality in the U.S. to gains made by the lowest-wage workers and labor movements. And the NLRB rules […]
