Five unions representing New England Stop & Shop workers have voted to authorize a strike, the Boston Globe reports. As OnLabor reported yesterday, strike votes have been coming in steadily during the stalled negotiations with Stop & Shop. The most r... More »
Over 150 Microsoft employees signed a letter demanding their employer cancel a $480 million contract with the Pentagon, asserting that they “refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression,” Fox News reports. The letter, addressed to Micros... More »
Congressional talks over border security broke down Sunday, as the current government funding measure is set to run out this Friday at midnight, the New York Times reports. If no deal is reached by that time, the government will shut down, leaving hundreds of... More »
The Oakland Education Association has scheduled a scheduled a strike vote, with voting to begin Tuesday, January 29, NPR reports. The union represents about 2,300 teachers in the Oakland Unified School District, and has been without a contract since July 2017... More »
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said last week that raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour would result in job losses around the country, the Wall Street Journal reports. Acosta’s statement came the day after Democrats proposed bills in both hous... More »
A group of federal employees working without pay are suing President Trump and their bosses for a violation of the 13th Amendment, the Washington Post reports. The lawsuit is not the first by federal workers during the shutdown, but it is the only one likenin... More »
Workers at Silicon Valley firms are using their stock-based compensation to demand changes in their companies, the New York Times reports. In late November and early December this year, over a dozen Amazon employees filed identical shareholder petitions askin... More »
General Motor’s recent plant closings may be a warning of things to come for salaried workers, the Associated Press reports. The cuts included many workers with college degrees, reflecting that in this era of rapid technological change, jobs once though... More »
Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal announced legislation for a federal domestic workers bill of rights this week, the Nation reports. The legislation would ensure that domestic workers are covered by basic labor laws: the right to overti... More »
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, a possible 2020 presidential contender, said Sunday that Democratic candidates have to speak to workers’ needs if they plan to win in 2020, the Associated Press reports. Senator Brown had the most votes of any Ohioan in... More »
United Steelworkers and ArcelorMittal SA reached a tentative contract deal covering 15,000 workers late last week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The four-year contract includes 3 percent to 4 percent wage increases each year and a $4,000 signing bonus. Un... More »
This past summer, law professors, labor activists, and union organizers on the cutting edge of their fields gathered at Harvard Law School to answer an ambitious question, put forth by Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs: “If we were to build labor law in 20... More »
March 11th, 2019