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 »
Harvard University announced yesterday that it intends to bargain with the newly formed graduate union. University Provost Alan M. Garber wrote in an email that “Harvard is prepared to begin good-faith negotiations, guided by our fundamental commitments as an... More »
On Friday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced that the state legislature had reached a deal to raise teachers’ pay 20 percent by 2020 and to restore public education funding that has been cut since the last recession. Arizona teachers, who have been on str... More »
Arizona teachers began voting on whether to strike on Tuesday afternoon. While Republican Governor Doug Ducey has agreed to a 20% pay raise for teachers by 2020, many teachers have criticized the plan for not including pay raises for support staff and for fai... More »