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May 18, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The mailbox outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama – which has become the fulcrum of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union’s (RWDSU) NLRB challenge to its election loss at the warehouse – was a top priority for the Amazon executive in charge of warehouses. NLRB hearings began last week after the RWDSU filed […]

May 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

We begin today with a familiar face in an unfamiliar place; Sara Nelson was profiled by Fast Company for the business magazine’s cover story. Nelson – president of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) – was lauded as “workers’ great hope” who is “poised to help the entire worker movement take off.” This portrayal of […]

April 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The number of initial state unemployment claims decreased by 13,000 last week, resulting in a weekly adjusted total of 553,000 claims. While “signal[ing] an improving labor market and an improving economy,” these numbers don’t reveal the full picture. As the New York Times notes, long-term unemployment has become more prevalent among those who are still without work. […]

April 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

This morning, the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) formally filed 23 objections to Amazon’s conduct during the organizing campaign at the company’s Bessemer, AL plant. Among the union’s objections are accusations that the company intimidated workers by identifying and removing union supporters from mandatory captive-audience meetings; that the company threatened workers with lost […]

April 18, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Saturday, nearly 3,000 Volvo workers went on strike in Dublin, Virginia, one of the largest of 2021 so far. The Volvo plant in Dublin is one of the largest Volvo facilities in the world, with more than 3,300 workers, 2,900 of whom belong to UAW. The strike is in response to three months of […]

April 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The most closely watched U.S. union election in years, perhaps decades, has resulted in a devastating defeat for organized labor as Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. voted overwhelmingly against unionizing with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) by a vote of 1,798 to 738. Although there remain outstanding 505 disputed ballots, the […]

April 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

While we wait for results in Bessemer, Amazon’s labor practices continue to drive the news. Yesterday, Amazon issued an apology for their now-infamous March 24 tweet denying that Amazon workers are forced to pee in bottles because of insufficient bathroom breaks. Amazon described the tweet as an “own-goal,” and apologized to U.S. Representative Mark Pocan […]

March 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

The Center for American Progress has published a new report advocating for the elimination of tipped minimum and other subminimum wages in favor of setting a single minimum wage. The report finds that workers and businesses in states that have eliminated tipped minimums are doing as well or better than states that have maintained tipped […]

March 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

This Monday will mark the final day for ballots to be received by the National Labor Relations Board to be counted in the union election taking place at the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. While the nearly two months of voting is finally coming to an end, the intensity surrounding events of the election’s final […]

March 23, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge to a California regulation that allows union organizers to access the property of agriculture businesses to speak with workers during non-work hours on up to 120 days per year. The challenge to the nearly-fifty-year-old regulation was brought under the Fifth […]

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