A recent ruling from the District Court of Colorado marked a small victory in the fight against unpaid, and underpaid labor in privately operated immigration detention centers. At the end of February, Judge John Kane certified a class action lawsuit against GE... More »
The New York Times Editorial Board calls a bill just passed by the House, “an invitation to wage theft.” The bill, called the “Working Families Flexibility Act,” lets employees choose paid time off instead of collecting time-and-a-half wages for overtime. How... More »
During prohibition, one of Al Capone’s liquor suppliers was a young Canadian named Samuel Bronfman. A Jewish immigrant whose family fled czarist Russia, Bronfman started his rum-running career as the owner of a small hotel and mail-order whiskey distributor. T... More »
Alexander Acosta will head up the Labor Department under President Trump after the Senate voted yesterday to approve his appointment. Acosta formerly served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, ... More »
Recently, following swift and widespread backlash, Pepsi pulled an advertisement that was accused of co-opting imagery from Black Lives Matter protests and other social movements. The advertisement’s storyline centered on model Kendall Jenner abandoning a phot... More »
The New York Times reports that rules for immigrant detainees are likely to change soon. Over the last 15 years, the federal government has instituted some protections for immigrant detainees including requirements to “[n]otify immigration officials if a deta... More »
The New York Times reports that rules for immigrant detainees are likely to change soon. Over the last 15 years, the federal government has instituted some protections for immigrant detainees including requirements to “[n]otify immigration officials if a deta... More »
Department of Labor officials told the The Guardian that it is getting harder to conduct workplace investigations because undocumented workers are refusing to cooperate with investigators. According to the report, the current government’s policies have stoked ... More »
President Trump released his budget proposal yesterday and it includes deep cuts to almost every area of discretionary spending. Of seventeen spending categories only Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs have proposed increases. The budget proposal ... More »
The Guardian reports that the Fight for $15 mid-south organizing committee is suing the Memphis police for engaging in a “campaign of harassment” against its members. According to the article, the lawsuit alleges that police officers “followed organizers home ... More »
On January 28, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called an hour-long work stoppage as a way to express their opposition to President Trump’s Executive Order banning immigration from seven Muslim majority countries and suspending refugee intake. A week later,... More »
President Trump has announced his new nominee for Labor Secretary and it is Alexander Acosta. According to the Washington Post Acosta currently serves as Dean of Florida International University, and formerly served as Supreme Court Justice Alito’s law ... More »
May 12th, 2017