WeWork has reached a settlement agreement with the Attorneys General of New York and Illinois to remove or alter noncompete clauses included in the company’s employment contracts. Prior to the settlement, most of WeWork’s staff—including custodians, baristas,... More »
Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit ruled that Columbia University’s Teachers College had unlawfully denied a request for information from UAW Local 2110, which represents the school’s secretarial and clerical workers, regarding the work performed by some employees ou... More »
Yesterday, President Trump reportedly met with union leaders from the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, United Automobile Workers, International Association of Machinists, and United Steelworkers to discuss the administration’s ongoing NAFTA negotiations. According to a st... More »
Today, Missouri voters decide the fate of the state’s “right-to-work” law by referendum. If the ballot initiative fails, the law would prevent unions from requiring their members to pay the agency fees that fund union representation. While the Supreme Court ... More »
In Washington, DC, the Metro transit system’s largest unions—Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 and AFL-CIO Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 2—won concessions from management after threatening to strike. Metro agreed to raise wages... More »
The NFL players union has filed a grievance against the league for its “Take a Knee” ban. In a statement, the NFL Players Association argued that the policy “is inconsistent with the collective agreement and infringes on player rights[.]” The NFL announced t... More »
The Department of Labor released its monthly job report on Friday. In the month of June, the United States added 213,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate ticked slightly upward from 3.8 percent to 4 percent. Some 50,000 of those jobs came from the professi... More »
Yesterday, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board requesting that a group of housekeepers at a Seattle Embassy Suites hotel be permitted vote on decertifying Unite Here as their collective... More »
The Supreme Court holds this morning in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector union fees violate “the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.” The majority opinion was ... More »
On Monday, a former Tesla employee testified before the NLRB that the company stopped him from union organizing in February of last year. Michael Sanchez was reportedly asked to leave by security guards after distributing pro-union flyers to co-workers outsid... More »
The city of San Francisco subpoenaed Uber and Lyft yesterday, demanding that the ride-hailing companies turn over records relating to driver pay and benefits, as well as information pertaining to whether drivers are classified as employees or independent contr... More »
Thousands of teachers in North Carolina are rallying at the capitol today for the planned “March for Students and Rally for Respect.” Forty-two school districts—accounting for over half of the state’s public school students—canceled school as up to 20,000 tea... More »