Happy Holidays!
Here at OnLabor, we believe that all workers deserve time off — so we’ll be taking some time off ourselves over the holidays, and pausing our daily News & Commentary posts for the next week.
News & Commentary will be back in the new year. In the meantime, check out some of our best content of 2018 from Professor Ben Sachs and from our Senior Contributors. Thank you all for reading OnLabor this year — 2019 has been an incredibly exciting year for the labor movement, and we can’t wait to see what 2020 has in store.
Daily News & Commentary
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August 26
Trump administration proposes $103,000 H-1B visa fee after court blocks earlier attempt; Illinois governor signs law enabling state investment in AFL-CIO housing trust; Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ probe alleging DEI-related discrimination in federal contracts.
August 25
Hyundai workers reach a tentative agreement; Federal-sector unions sue the Trump Administration over OPM rule changes; Federal judge dismisses a teachers’ union free speech suit.
August 24
Boeing engineers and technicians reject contract proposals and authorize a strike; Ninth Circuit holds that unions charged under 8(b)(4)(D) cannot invoke the work-preservation defense to disregard 10(k) determination.
August 23
Hyundai Motors workers launch full-day strike; federal judge rules in favor of Vermont dairy plant in closure dispute
August 21
Tyson workers respond to abrupt plant shutdown; DOL ends its power to police federal contractor bias.
August 20
Unions sue the government over new visa rule; Judge declines to dismiss former Amazon worker's suit.