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May 19, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Minnesota Democrats pass a sweeping labor bill; SCOTUS held that the FLRA has jurisdiction over state National Guard technicians; the EEOC released new guidance regarding employer use of automated hiring tools; Handy settled a worker misclassification lawsuit for $6 million

Historic New EU Law Part of Growing Push for Sectoral Bargaining

Jan 19, 2023 David Madland

This past fall, the European Union passed a “watershed initiative” to raise minimum wages and strengthen collective bargaining. There are numerous complexities to the new EU directive, but for pro-worker Americans the key point to understand is that the “historic” new law aims to improve working conditions by increasing minimum wages and dramatically increasing collective […]

New Zealand’s New Sectoral Bargaining Law Holds Lessons for the United States

Dec 22, 2022 David Madland

What the U.S. could learn from New Zealand’s innovative sectoral bargaining policy.

How Prop 22’s Electoral Success Foreshadows Future Fight over Sectoral Bargaining

Dec 5, 2022 Will Ebeler

Will fast-food companies use the same deceptive tactics that Uber and Lyft did to stymie sectoral bargaining?

September 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

After an exciting labor day weekend, there is still much good news to celebrate! An article in the Hill pointed out yesterday that this Labor Day weekend was perhaps “the most promising” for unions in many years, because of very high public support, dynamic grassroots organizing campaigns at several massive corporations, and a President who […]

August 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

In California, AB 257—a bill that could nudge the U.S. labor market closer to a form of sectoral bargaining—is inching toward becoming law. The bill, which is advancing through the state legislature, has two components. First, it would dramatically alter the franchise model by making corporate franchisors—such as McDonald’s—automatically liable for their franchisees’ violations of […]

August 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, a Trader Joe’s in Minneapolis became the second unionized store location in the US, and a union ordered a walkout at an Amazon distribution center in Bar Hersfeld, Germany. On August 12, Trader Joe’s employees at a store in Minneapolis voted 55 to 5 to unionize with Trader Joe’s […]

August 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: The FAST Act makes its way to the California Senate Floor; New York companies face billions in lawsuits for paying workers once every two weeks instead of weekly. Yesterday, California’s Senate Appropriations Committee passed AB 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, progressing the bill to a […]

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

Jul 29, 2022 David Doorey

The recent wave of union organizing in the service sector has raised hopes that a fundamental transformation is occurring in the United States that will revitalize collective bargaining and bring millions of young workers into the labor movement. At the epicentre of this movement is a mass campaign to organize Starbucks’s employees. As of this […]

January 17, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The continued shortage of rapid antigen tests and PCR test appointments is hitting people who cannot work remotely especially hard, NPR-affiliate KQED reports. Many are put in an impossible situation: find a test or give up a paycheck you can’t afford to miss. And, like every other aspect of this pandemic, the racial and economic […]

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May 19, 2023

Historic New EU Law Part of Growing Push for Sectoral Bargaining

New Zealand’s New Sectoral Bargaining Law Holds Lessons for the United States

How Prop 22’s Electoral Success Foreshadows Future Fight over Sectoral Bargaining

September 6, 2022

August 21, 2022

August 14, 2022

August 12, 2022

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

January 17, 2022