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March 20, 2015
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The LA Times reports that farmworkers in Baja California have vowed to continue striking after negotiations failed on Wednesday. Authorities arrested farmworkers during protests and have refused to release them. Baja California is located about 200 miles south of San Diego. Mexico has sent hundreds of soldiers and law enforcement officers to the region after protesters managed […]

March 19, 2015
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

The New York Times reports that Target plans to raise its wages to a minimum of $9 per hour for all of its employees starting this spring. Target currently has approximately 347,000 employees in the United States. Last week, Target that it will lay off 1,700 employees at its corporate headquarters. Several other large retailers, […]

March 18, 2015
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

McDonald’s workers in 19 cities have filed complaints with OSHA, alleging various workplace health and safety violations including burns from popping grease and a lack of protective equipment. According to AP, the complaints, announced by the group Fast Food Forward, are the latest move in the SEIU’s campaign to win a $15/hour minimum wage and […]

March 16, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The National Labor Relations Board granted graduate student unions at Columbia University and The New School a review of the decision to dismiss their petitions for union recognition, Capital New York reports. The union petitions, backed by the United Auto Workers, had previously been dismissed by the NLRB’s New York City regional director. The regional […]

March 15, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The United Steelworkers union and refinery operators have reached a tentative agreement that would end a walkout by thousands of employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. The dispute over wages, benefits and safety issues has lasted six weeks and has previously been covered by OnLabor. The tentative agreement calls for annual wage increases, maintenance […]

March 12, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

In Wisconsin, the state AFL-CIO and two local unions filed a lawsuit this week arguing that Wisconsin’s new right to work law is unconstitutional, according to the New York Times. The unions argue that the law, which prohibits unions from requiring workers to pay the equivalent of dues, constitutes an unconstitutional taking of property. Wisconsin Governor Scott […]

March 11, 2015
News & Commentary

Daniel Crossen

An article by the Associated Press situates Wisconsin’s right-to-work law in the broader context of a “general assault on unions” by Republican lawmakers across the country. In addition to right-to-work laws, a number of states are considering other measures, including, for example, eliminating requirements of “union-level wages on public projects” and “legislation that would let […]

March 10, 2015
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The Supreme Court has released its opinion in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association, a significant administrative law case impacting the Labor Department and NLRB’s rule-making authority. In a 9-0 decision, the Court held that an executive agency can change its interpretation of its own rules/regulations without going through a notice-and-comment period. This decision overturns the previous standard (the Paralyzed Veterans doctrine), which […]

March 9, 2015
News & Commentary

Greg Baltz

The New York Times reports that Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has signed the “Right-to-Work” Bill passed by the legislature last week. This makes Wisconsin the 25th state to adopt a private-sector right to work law. According to Bloomberg, Gov. Walker stated as he signed the bill into law, “Our leaders here led. . . […]

March 8, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

On Friday, Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, passed legislation requiring some of Europe’s largest companies to give 30 percent of supervisory seats to women beginning next year; to pass, the legislation will have to be approved by Germany’s upper house, the Bundesrat. CNBC reports that the legislation was prompted by a survey finding women grossly […]

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