Linh is a student at Harvard Law School.
To continue Jacqueline’s coverage of the UPS Teamsters’s August 1 strike, UPS has bowed to the strike pressure and agreed to return to the bargaining table next week with 340,000 workers. “We are pleased to be back at the negotiating table next week to resolve the few remaining open issues. We are prepared to increase our industry-leading pay and benefits,” UPS said in a statement on Wednesday. The pending strike has been estimated to be one of the costliest in the country in at least a century, topping $7 billion for a 10-day work stoppage.
Google is required to negotiate with YouTube contract staff, according to an NLRB ruling on Wednesday. Concluding that Google jointly employs a group of Texas Youtube workers, the Board ruled that Youtube and Google share the duty to bargain with Alphabet Workers Union, which was unanimous voted and certified represent these workers. Google can challenge the NLRB’s joint employer finding in federal courts, but it first must intentionally refuse to bargain to trigger a separate unfair labor practice case.
A whistleblower lawsuit by an ex-Google AI engineer moves ahead as a California state judge tentatively denied the company’s motion to dismiss the wrongful termination and whistleblower claims. Satrajit Chatterjee, previously a senior engineering manager at Google, alleges in the complaint that he was fired for threatening to report to the CEO that the company had exaggerated the ability of the company’s proprietary AI technology in an effort to defraud shareholders. Google can contest the ruling at a hearing today before the judge issues a final order.
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July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
In Today’s News and Commentary, the Supreme Court green-lights mass firings of federal workers, the Agricultural Secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers, and DHS ends Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans. In an 8-1 emergency docket decision released yesterday afternoon, the Supreme Court lifted an injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan […]
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.