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September 24, 2014
News & Commentary

Daniel Crossen

The Los Angeles Times reports that the L.A. city council is set to vote this week on a measure that would increase pay for thousands of hotel workers to $15.37 per hour. Labor groups have praised the plan as a way to “pull hotel workers’ families out of poverty and inject more spending into the […]

September 23, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The EEOC has sued restaurant franchise Doherty Enterprises, Inc., for unlawfully violating an employee’s right to file charges of discrimination. Doherty Enterprises requires each prospective employee to sign a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition of employment, mandating that all employment related claims be submitted to binding arbitration. The EEOC claims that this practice prevents the […]

September 22, 2014
News & Commentary

Greg Baltz

Yesterday afternoon, New York City hosted the largest climate march in history, with over 400,000 people in attendance. Union membership made up a significant portion of the participants in the People’s Climate March. Time and In These Times, write that nearly every labor union in the city, including the Services Employees International Union 32BJ and […]

September 21, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The Boston Globe reports that workers at Logan Airport took a significant step towards unionization this week, as two-thirds of baggage handlers, wheelchair assistants, and cabin cleaners declared through card check their desire to join 32BJ SEIU. The SEIU had been organizing these workers since 2011. The next step of the process will be convincing […]

September 19, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

Customer service agents for the now merged American Airlines-US Airways have voted strongly in favor of unionization. According to the National Mediation Board, about 86% of the 14,500 agents voted for representation by the CWA-IBT Association, a joint association of the Communications Workers of America and the Teamsters. Although agents at US Airways were unionized in […]

September 18, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

The Wall Street Journal reports that the United Auto Workers is continuing to negotiate with Volkswagen over representing its workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Last February, the workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted to not join the UAW in a very contested election, which we’ve covered extensively. Since then, the UAW has worked to represent some […]

September 17, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

The New York Times reports that nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry works under forced labor conditions, according to a report issued today by a factory-monitoring group commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor. The monitoring group Verité, which conducted a two year investigation, found that 32 percent of the country’s […]

September 16, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

Hundreds of migrants are reported to have died on Sunday and Monday in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting passage to Europe, seeking employment and haven from war-stricken countries, The Guardian reports. On Sunday, a ship carrying more than 200 African emigrants sank off the coast of Libya; fewer than 30 survivors have at this point […]

September 15, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The New York Times reports that crowds in the main airports in Paris were thinner than usual on Monday “as thousands of passengers who normally would have boarded flights of the country’s flag carrier, Air France, stayed home or in hotel rooms because of a strike by the airline’s pilots.” 52 percent of Air France’s flights […]

September 14, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The Metropolitan Opera has announced that it is eliminating 22 of its 254 administrative positions (9% of its nonunion staff) mostly through layoffs. The Met has been struggling financially, resulting in recent tensions with unions representing Met employees. However, with wage cuts and budget reorganization, “labor savings and cost reductions are expected to save the […]

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