November 17, 2022 News & Commentary Strikes at Starbucks; House passes bill nullifying gag orders around workplace sexual harassment; St. Louis Apple Store workers move to unionize; New York City proposes higher wages for delivery app workers; SCOTUS decision will determine next steps in cases against meatpacking companies by families of workers who died of COVID-19; Missouri doubles down on subminimum wages for disabled workers
November 3, 2022 News & Commentary DOL finds OSHA COVID-19 enforcement lacking; Apple denies benefits to union store workers; reform movement in the UFCW; workers advocate for a just transition at COP27
November 2, 2022 News & Commentary Target wins 9th Cir. appeal in overtime class action; yet another NLRB complaint against Starbucks; union voting in a Philadelphia Home Depot starts today; Trader Joe's to being negotiating CBA
October 31, 2022 News & Commentary A deep dive on the UAW’s first presidential election, another update on the Starbucks labor movement, and some history — on graduate-student labor unions and labor cats.
October 30, 2022 News & Commentary Federal judge issues unusual order requiring Starbucks union to disclose communications with reporters; the push for unions to fund organizing and growth; and why we shouldn't buy Republican efforts to court workers
October 26, 2022 News & Commentary Illinois to vote on a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing collective bargaining; Yale graduate students file for a union election; Striketober continues for Starbucks while negotiations stall and the company files unfair labor practice charges.
October 25, 2022 News & Commentary Starbucks walks out on bargaining negotiations, Amazon workers in California withdraw from union election, and Netflix music supervisors have filed for a union election
October 21, 2022 News & Commentary GC Abruzzo releases a memo on 10(j) settlements; Amazon workers vote against unionization; internal Starbucks survey shows office workers’ faith in the company is at an all-time low
October 14, 2022 News & Commentary Starbucks fights NLRB over mail-in voting, while closing another unionized store; another rail union ratifies the tentative agreement
October 13, 2022 News & Commentary Amazon workers stage walk-out; NLRB judge: Starbucks violated labor law (again); Home Depot workers to vote in union election; NLRB judge lays groundwork for potential Joy Silk revival