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January 30, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

In continuing news from Ferguson, Missouri, the city’s public safety committee meeting grew tense after a participant accused Jeff Roorda, a police union official, of pushing her. The Los Angeles Times reports that Mr. Roorda, who was wearing a “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet, appeared to bump into the woman and grab her arm. The St. Louis […]

January 29, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

A personal tech post in the New York Times explores the possible extension of “Uberization:” “chop[ping] up a broad array of traditional jobs into discrete tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed, with wages set by a dynamic measurement of supply and demand, and every worker’s performance constantly tracked, reviewed, and subject to the sometimes […]

January 28, 2015
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Dylan Rubin

This post is part of an ongoing of series on the fast food organizing movement. You can read all our Fast Food News here. Al Jazeera America reports that the fast food industry could adjust to a $15 per hour federal minimum wage without cutting jobs, according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Department […]

January 28, 2015
News & Commentary

Daniel Crossen

The Wall Street Journal reports on the challenges faced by so-called “on-demand” workers for companies like Uber and TaskRabbit who, as the paper observes, “don’t fit neatly into a regulatory landscape that recognizes only two types of worker: employees in traditional work relationships and independent contractors.” A number of companies in recent months have faced […]

January 27, 2015
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The Supreme Court has ruled that a chemical company may cut the health benefits of retired workers, rejecting a presumption that health-care benefits have vested in an employment contract. The decision, M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, unanimously reverses a Sixth Circuit decision that had adopted a presumption that health care benefits are considered “vested” unless a union’s collective-bargaining agreement includes clear […]

January 26, 2015
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Greg Baltz

The Washington Post reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released union density numbers for 2014. The data shows that union membership has increased both in the public and private sectors. However, since the overall number of people in the work force has increased at an even greater rate, union density is down. According […]

January 25, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the Department of Labor would appeal the recent federal district court ruling that struck down the agency’s extension of minimum wage and overtime pay to most home-health workers. The U.S. District Court of D.C.’s Judge Richard Leon struck down portions of the rule in a decision in […]

January 23, 2015
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, New York City’s largest police union, will face challenges in the union election later this year. Lynch assumed a high profile when he “openly clashed” with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the killing of two patrol officers in Brooklyn last month. Among the challengers are […]

January 22, 2015
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Continuing with our State of the Union coverage, Dave Jamieson at the Huffington Post writes about one of President Obama’s most important labor initiatives: defining which workers are entitled to overtime pay. The Department of Labor is likely to release revised rules on overtime next month, the result of a year-long revision process, according to […]

January 21, 2015
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The President delivered the State of the Union last night. Among the President’s economic proposals: a renewed call for a higher minimum wage, an initiative to expand paid sick leave and overtime rules, a focus on maternity leave, and a plan to extend two free years of community college to millions of students. The New […]

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