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Mexico Labor Law Reform & the USMCA — An American Explainer

Jun 3, 2022 Maxwell Ulin

Last month, U.S. trade authorities filed a complaint with Mexican officials to address labor violations at a major Panasonic auto plant in Mexico. The petition marks the third U.S. labor rights complaint against Mexico under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which established new measures to ensure that Mexico follows through on promised union law reforms. […]

November 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, members of Third Circuit Court of Appeals cast doubt on whether the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent decision against The Federalist would withstand appellate scrutiny. The case, FDRLST Media v. NLRB, 3d Cir. No. 20-03434, arose in 2019 after the conservative magazine’s co-founder Ben Domenech tweeted that he would send his employees “back […]

October 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Congressional Democrats’ proposal to institute a national paid family and medical leave program for workers has been officially cut from Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill, according to several outlets yesterday. The proposal, which initially sought to establish twelve weeks of paid leave for all workers, had been whittled down substantially in recent weeks in the face […]

October 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

A record 2.9% of U.S. workers left their jobs in August, marking the highest month-to-month quits rate of the century. According to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), some 4.2 million workers resigned from work, including over 1.6 million in the retail and hospitality industries. While quits remain disproportionately concentrated […]

September 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. The measure, filed with state authorities last month, claims to mandate an hourly pay standard […]

September 16, 2021
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Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum urging agency field staff to seek a more expansive set of remedies in settlement agreements with employers. As noted in the Board’s press release, the document builds on a previous memo released last week by Abruzzo, which directed agency leaders to pursue […]

Featured in Dems’ Newest Budget Draft: A Major Labor Law Proposal

Sep 9, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, Democrats on the House Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) released a completed draft for its part of Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill. Along with other blockbuster proposals, the Committee’s $450 billion package includes a number of provisions designed to raise federal revenues by imposing civil penalties on employers who violate federal labor […]

September 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition 22, was one of 17 out of 30 proposed ballot initiatives certified by the Attorney General as having met baseline state […]

August 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was widely seen as a critical test case for the agreement’s unprecedented […]

August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

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