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December 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Yesterday, the Kellogg strike ended after striking workers ratified a new contract broadening the scope of the company’s cost-of-living wage adjustments to cover all employees. The eleven-week strike started in early October, spanning four of Kellogg’s breakfast cereal plants. The agreement concludes a monthslong contentious negotiation, during which Kellogg controversially threatened to permanently replace striking […]

Workplace Discrimination in the Remote Environment

Dec 22, 2021 Julia Huang

More than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in roughly half of paid work hours being logged from home, many workers continue to opt into working remotely. In a survey of 33,250 participants conducted by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute between May 2020 and March 2021, 77.6% of those able to work […]

Is There a Right Way to Secure the Right to Return?

Dec 20, 2021 Julia Huang

Imagine working for an employer for most of your life and drawing on your years of experience to help you proficiently perform your job. You invest your time, you befriend your coworkers, and you support your family with this steady stream of income. But when the global pandemic hits, due to circumstances outside of your […]

Exploring Barriers to Unemployment for Limited English Proficiency Claimants

Dec 15, 2021 Travis Lavenski

Following two large economic downturns within the last 15 years, the importance of unemployment insurance in supporting those who have lost their jobs cannot be overstated. During the Great Recession, the unemployment system kept millions of working people from plunging into poverty; during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that expanded unemployment benefits […]

Controversies Surrounding Workplace Surveillance

Dec 13, 2021 Jasmine Loo

Workplace surveillance is now almost ubiquitous, from keyloggers installed on business-issued laptops, to AI-enabled cameras giving delivery drivers performance scores, to apps that automatically track and terminate warehouse fulfilment workers who lag behind in productivity metrics. With increasing proportions of workers now working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a growing trend of […]

Death-by-a-Thousand-Papercuts: The Pandemic’s Tremendous Toll on K-12 Teachers

Dec 10, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

As K-12 schools welcomed students back to the classroom, they had to grapple with a new challenge: a nationwide teacher and staff shortage accelerated by the pandemic. The composition of these shortages differ around the country: Michigan saw a 44% increase in retirements and resignations over the past year, districts in Texas saw 400% increases […]

Employers and Legislators Eye Child Labor as the Answer to the Labor Shortage

Nov 26, 2021 Luca Greco

Recently, the Wisconsin Senate voted to approve a law that would allow employers to keep teenage workers at work longer, in an effort to address the so-called labor shortage. Currently, teenagers may not work before 7 AM or past 7 PM. The proposed law would increase the upper bound to 9 PM during the summer, […]

November 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, workers across the country and around the world are taking to the picket line to voice grievances over wages, health insurance, and working conditions. Yesterday, in San Francisco, a local union announced that hundreds of airport workers intend to protest inadequate health-care benefits on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, […]

November 18, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

The United Auto Workers achieved victory yesterday after ending a month-long strike at John Deere, the farm and construction equipment manufacturer. In a statement, the UAW said, “UAW John Deere members did not just unite themselves, they seemed to unite the nation in a struggle for fairness in the workplace. We could not be more […]

November 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

This week, Fran and Zachary have covered ongoing union organizing efforts at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area. Yesterday, the union petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold votes at three additional locations, in its historic push to unionize the first Starbucks store in the United States. The filing comes on the […]

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