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February 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Despite a membership drop across the United States from pandemic job loss, unions have gained an increased share of workers compared to the nationwide job market. California offers a specific case study. California unions have been able to retain their workers during the pandemic at rates three times higher than the rest of the population. […]

January 25, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

President Biden is set to sign an executive order this morning bolstering the federal government’s “Buy American” policy. While order’s full text had not yet been released at the time of this post, CNN reported that its key provisions included increasing the minimum amount of domestic content required for a product to eligible for federal […]

January 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Some 6,000 front-line workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail in February and March on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the NLRB said Friday. The NLRB rejected Amazon’s push to hold the election in-person, citing safety concerns in light of COVID-19. Ballots will be mailed […]

December 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Record numbers of holiday shoppers are doing their gift buying online this year. This is placing enormous stress on warehouse workers employed by online retailers like Amazon and Target, who report unsafe conditions as they pack into indoor warehouses and struggle to meet towering orders. Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill yesterday to provide free […]

December 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Amazon employees are one step closer to unionizing for the first time. The National Labor Relations Board recently determined that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has enough support among workers in Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse to hold an election. The size of the bargaining unit at the warehouse has been a point […]

November 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

A statewide campaign in California aims to educate farmworkers about health, safety and labor rights amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to The Desert Sun. Volunteers and outreach workers will distribute PPE and and packets of information to workers in the fields as well as at churches and food drives. A major goal of the campaign […]

November 24, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Motherboard, a part of Vice, obtained access to over two dozen internal Amazon reports with a plethora of details about Amazon’s spying and monitoring of labor activity in Europe and elsewhere. The report reveals a vast network of monitoring operations that have included hiring Pinkerton operatives, notorious for union-busting, to gather intelligence. Amazon’s security division […]

October 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

The New York Times acquired an internal Department of Labor memo issued on September 24 instructing heads of DOL enforcement agencies not to use issued labor violation citations as the basis for press releases. The memo, issued by Deputy Secretary Patrick Pizzella, instructs that press releases should be issued instead after a court judgment or […]

May 3, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Republican leaders in Iowa, Oklahoma, and other states reopening soon are telling UI recipients to return to work or risk losing benefits, the Washington Post reports. The leaders and reopening businesses fear workers will prefer to take advantage of historically high benefits following the CARES Act stimulus legislation rather than return to work. Denial of […]

April 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Working conditions at Amazon and Whole Foods, which Amazon owns, are coming under the spotlight as the companies continue to operate amid the pandemic. The tech behemoth is apparently acutely concerned that worker unrest may be leading to unionization. Business Insider reported yesterday that Whole Foods is using an extensive, interactive tool that scores certain […]

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