Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Los Angeles regulation that requires airline service providers at Los Angeles International Airport to enter into “labor peace agreements” with any employee organization that requests one. Petitione... More »
Following a ten-month grassroots campaign led by the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance (PDWA) and supported by over forty unions and community organizations, the Philadelphia City Council introduced a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights last Thursday. If pass... More »
Southern California grocery store workers, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 135, plan to vote Monday on whether to authorize a strike against several SoCal grocery chains due to stalling contract negotiations. The union... More »
This week, Democratic Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders floated support for decriminalizing sex work, joining Cory Booker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and long-shot candidate Mike Gravel, who even lists decriminalization as a platform prior... More »
Two decades after its introduction, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act passed both the New York State Assembly and Senate yesterday. The bill guarantees farmworkers collective bargaining rights, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits, and also... More »
On Friday, June 14, the NLRB overturned 38 years of precedent, holding in UPMC and SEIU, 368 NLRB No. 2 (June 14, 2019), that an employer has no duty to permit nonemployee union organizers to use public space on its property to solicit union support. The case ... More »
Five of the undocumented immigrant workers who were fired from Trump golf clubs in New York and New Jersey are planning a press conference this morning outside the Amway Center in Orlando, where Donald Trump is expected to officially announce his reelection ca... More »
The upcoming Supreme Court term could be “the term of ERISA,” according to Bloomberg. The justices have already agreed to hear two cases involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and could hear up to four. In Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committ... More »
Nevada has enacted a slew of new laws aimed at protecting workers. Yesterday, Governor Steve Sisolak signed a measure allowing state employees to engage in collective bargaining. Although the state will retain final say on some key bargaining subjects – incl... More »
Five senators signed on to a letter by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) calling on McDonald’s to require franchisees to implement its newly updated harassment policies. The letter points out that “independently owned operations make up the vast majority of the o... More »
Yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that would have applied California state laws governing overtime to workers on offshore drilling platforms. Brian Newton had sued his employer, Parker Drilling Management Services, alleging that he... More »
Graduate student workers at the University of Chicago held a three day strike last week to pressure the university to recognize and bargain with their union, Graduate Students United. As previously reported in OnLabor, UChicago student workers voted to unioni... More »
June 25th, 2019