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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Labor Decisions

Feb 28, 2022 Jason Vazquez

On February 25, the White House announced that President Joe Biden intends to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Circuit Judge on the powerful United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed by the Senate, Jackson will become […]

What’s in the White House Task Force Report on Worker Organizing and Empowerment?

Feb 14, 2022 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa and Jason Vazquez

On April 26, 2021, President Biden, who pledged on the campaign trail to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” signed Executive Order 14025 establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The Task Force’s mission was simple enough — to “identify executive branch policies, practices, and programs that could . […]

February 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Starbucks workers across the United States are in the middle of a historic unionization wave. A Washington Post profile dives deep into the organizing victory at a single Starbucks store in Buffalo that started it all. The article not only tracks the events leading up to the first unionized Starbucks in the country — including the […]

GOP Senators Owe Judge Sung an Apology

Jan 19, 2022 Andrew Strom

In December, the Senate confirmed Jennifer Sung to a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by a 50-49 vote along party lines. Sung had been serving as one of the three members of the Oregon Employment Relations Board, a state agency that oversees labor relations in the public sector. During her four-year tenure […]

Public Banks: What Are They, and How Might They Impact Workers?

Jan 12, 2022 Travis Lavenski

Since the Great Recession in 2008, a surge of discourse regarding public banking has emerged. Commonly pushed as a core piece of progressive legislation, states including New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have recently introduced bills that would establish a state-level public bank; several cities such as Los Angeles and New York City have seen […]

Evidence of a New Antitrust Strategy Emerging: The FTC Sues to Halt a Book Publishing Merger

Jan 7, 2022 Mike Klain

This July, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order that contained a multi-pronged approach to promoting corporate competition. Notably, the order included several elements targeting the impacts of consolidation on workers, such as a directive to the FTC that antitrust enforcement focus in particular on labor markets, a directive for the FTC to take steps […]

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 […]

Wages and Prices Are Rising – Is the Phillips Curve Back?

Dec 17, 2021 Mike Klain

In a recent poll, two-thirds of respondents agreed with the statement “inflation is a very big concern for me.” These concerns are not without merit: the Consumer Price Index, which tracks the weighted-average prices of consumer goods and services, showed a 6.2% annual increase in October, the largest rate of increase in thirty years. The […]

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, […]

Hidden in the Infrastructure Bill: Interstate Teen Driving of Commercial Semi-Trucks

Nov 22, 2021 Julia Huang

The House has finally passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Among many other things, it promises spending on road improvements and broadband access. But in a potentially dangerous move, the infrastructure bill invites young 18- to 20- year old drivers to drive semi-trucks on interstate highways, instead of solving the industry’s turnover and recruitment […]

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