November 21, 2022 News & Commentary Auto workers at Rivian Automotive filed safety violation complaints against the electric vehicle manufacturer; members of New York’s first farm-worker union and supporters protested outside of Pindar Vinyards on Long Island; and temporary staffing agencies have ramped up lobbying efforts to stop a temp worker protection bill from passing in the New Jersey State Senate.
November 20, 2022 News & Commentary District judge declines to reinstate fired Amazon union organizer; Southern service workers form new union; NLRB leaders threaten furloughs absent additional funding
November 18, 2022 News & Commentary A nationwide Starbucks strike of 112 stores; Iran metal workers join the resistance; Sanders vies to take Murray's seat as HELP committee chair; and the NLRB Union challenged the General Counsel's plan to change their telework policy
November 17, 2022 News & Commentary Strikes at Starbucks; House passes bill nullifying gag orders around workplace sexual harassment; St. Louis Apple Store workers move to unionize; New York City proposes higher wages for delivery app workers; SCOTUS decision will determine next steps in cases against meatpacking companies by families of workers who died of COVID-19; Missouri doubles down on subminimum wages for disabled workers
November 16, 2022 News & Commentary Whistleblowers expose employment law violations at Tesla's new Texas facility; uncertainty around fate of tentative railway deal; Starbucks shutters yet another unionized store; the implications of the midterm elections for national labor and employment policy
November 15, 2022 News & Commentary The inner-workings of the Apple retail unionizing campaign are laid out in a recent report and the Eleventh circuit revives a class action lawsuit against Burger King for antitrust violations.
November 14, 2022 News & Commentary Huge UC grad-student strike begins; Labor Department uncovers disturbing child-labor violations; Twitter layoffs continue
November 13, 2022 News & Commentary Dems seal control of the Senate; tentative rail agreement might fail; and union news about airline pilots, publishing-house workers, and Wells Fargo employees
November 11, 2022 News & Commentary Workers at HarperCollins go on strike, one of the unions to reject the rail deal pushes back their earliest date to strike, and former employees sue Twitter under the WARN Act.
November 10, 2022 News & Commentary Democrats celebrate after the anticipated “red wave” in the midterms failed to materialize; a major railroad union agrees not to strike before early December; and consumer price index inflation rates, though high, are lower than anticipated.
