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Today’s News & Commentary — September 7, 2018

Sep 7, 2018 Jenny Braun

Jobs don’t fall prey to higher minimum wages, according to researchers at U.C. Berkeley. Completing the first comprehensive empirical study of its kind, Sylvia Allegretto, Anna Godoey, Carl Nadler, and Michael Reich analyzed the impact of incremental wage increases in six cities – Chicago, D.C., Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle. The researchers intend […]

Today’s News & Commentary — August 29, 2018

Aug 29, 2018 Jenny Braun

The prison strike enters day nine, as the estimated 900,000 incarcerated laborers (out of a population of 2.4 million) demand “an immediate end to prison slavery.” Sarah Holder of City Lab, quoting ACLU National Prison Project’s David Fathi, breaks down the cold truth behind a high incarceration rate: both public and private employers have a […]

Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018

Aug 26, 2018 Jenny Braun

On Saturday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a series of President Trump’s executive orders. Jackson ruled that boosting federal agencies’ firing rights would deny collective bargaining rights for federal workers. Thus, the three executive orders Trump signed in May violated the NLRA, for they side-stepped […]

July 29, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Entry-level pay for some Disneyland workers will rise to $15 an hour by January 2019, and $15.45 by mid-June 2020. Hourly workers will see yearly raises of 3 percent. The new wages – up from an $11 an hour minimum – follow months of negotiations and disputes between Disney management and the four-union coalition representing […]

Today’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018

Jul 20, 2018 Jenny Braun

For the discriminatory loss of early retirement benefits, the New York State Nurses Association has won a $20.8 million-dollar settlement from New York City. The city repeatedly denied requests from the Assoc. to classify nursing as a “physically taxing” job, and thus denied nurses early retirement (at age 50). The New York Times reports that […]

Weekend News & Commentary — July 14–15, 2018

Jul 15, 2018 Jenny Braun

The Fifth Circuit recently ruled that the fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger violated the National Labor Relations Act when it prohibited employees from wearing “fight for 15” buttons at work. Amanda Healey wore a quarter-sized button in April of 2015, and a couple of co-workers caught on, and hoped, too, to show support for the movement […]

Today’s News & Commentary — July 2, 2018

Jul 2, 2018 Jenny Braun

Minimum wages are rising across the country. On Sunday, San Francisco’s minimum wage reached $15 an hour for all businesses, the highest rate of any major U.S. city. (Seattle’s $15 minimum in effect last year applies only to large businesses with 501 or more employees.) An estimated 142,000 workers will see a raise, but they […]

Today’s News & Commentary — June 29, 2018

Jun 29, 2018 Jenny Braun

In Chicago, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in favor of sandwich franchise Jimmy John’s, who argued that the company cannot be liable for the FLSA violations of its individual restaurants. Jimmy John’s may control mayonnaise dispensing techniques and proper fridge organization for each restaurant, but this type of control […]

June 10, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Starting tomorrow, no Costco employee will earn below $14 an hour. While some locations already saw a $13.50 an hour minimum wage, the new mark, which nearly doubles the federal minimum of $7.25, signals that the “fight for $15” is edging forward, and the nation’s largest employers are taking it seriously. (Employees at these higher-minimum […]

June 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Boeing pursues an NLRB appeal of the unionization vote of a “micro unit” of plant workers in Charleston, South Carolina; before the vote, the NLRB had made an anti-union reversal a little more likely. As Bloomberg Law reported on Friday, an ethics official found Member William Emanuel (R) could participate in the Boeing case, despite […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — September 7, 2018

Today’s News & Commentary — August 29, 2018

Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018

July 29, 2018

Today’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018

Weekend News & Commentary — July 14–15, 2018

Today’s News & Commentary — July 2, 2018

Today’s News & Commentary — June 29, 2018

June 10, 2018

June 3, 2018