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September 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Julia Deng

In today’s News and Commentary: rail workers and freight rail companies reach a tentative agreement, minor league baseball players unionize, the Minnesota nurses’ strike comes to a close, and tensions continue to simmer on the picket line at the longest strike in Starbucks history. After all-night talks, rail workers’ unions and railroads reached a tentative […]

August 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend passed the Senate yesterday afternoon, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the […]

July 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, a leaked Amazon memo gives insight into its anti-union strategy and Congress advances legislation to protect workers from dangerous heat conditions. On July 29, Vox reported on a leaked memo authored by Amazon officials in May 2021 offering insight into the company’s anti-union strategy in Southern California, a crucial […]

July 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s News and Commentary: proposed federal legislation to protect domestic workers, workers written out of a newly passed federal semiconductor production initiative, a potential criminal inquiry at Amazon, union workers find solidarity amid struggle in Ukraine, and unions demand change in Sri Lanka. Beginning at 10:00 AM today the House Education and Labor Committee […]

July 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: DOL rulemaking on employee retention for changing federal contractors; pro-labor amendments passed in a House Defense bill; and both celebrations and limitations of a DOL policy offering protections to undocumented workers who file certain labor law complaints. Today, the DOL issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for a rule […]

July 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, the U.S. labor market proves resilient, experts look back on — and ahead at — President Biden’s pro-worker agenda, and union momentum reaches Chipotle. The latest Labor Department numbers describe a strong labor market, despite high inflation and rising interest rates. The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs last month — much better than […]

July 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, Southern states enact new laws to protect gig companies, the UK rail strike may not be over yet, and Starbucks Workers United creates a national newsletter. State legislatures in Alabama and Georgia have weighed in on the gig economy debate, siding with companies such as Uber and Lyft, Bloomberg reports. […]

Employers’ Commitments to Providing Abortion Access for Employees Underscore the Need for Unions

Jul 1, 2022 Swap Agrawal

Reproductive justice organizations have not been alone in responding to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe in its decision in Dobbs last week — employers have also made moves to secure abortion access for their employees. Specifically, many companies have committed to financially assisting employees who now have to travel out of their state to […]

June 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, internal email reveals that a leader in Starbucks’s union-busting campaign was terminated by the company, federal firefighters get a pay raise, and leftist-candidate Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian Presidential election. An internal company email has revealed that Rossann Williams, the former president of Starbucks North America and key figure in […]

June 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

US Well Services Inc., a company involved in oil production, must face a prospective class action lawsuit by former employees who were laid off due to the economic effects of Covid-19. Employees allege that the company’s failure to give at least 60 days advance notice of the layoffs violated the WARN Act. US Well invoked […]

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