Esther Ritchin is a student at Harvard Law School.
In today’s news and commentary, nurses in Michigan vote to unionize and a hotel workers strike continues in Las Vegas.
Nurses at Corewell Health in Michigan voted to unionize after a year-long campaign. This election resulted in one of the largest union election victories in nearly 20 years, according to the NLRB, with this election representing nearly 10,000 workers. The vote was 4,958 for the union to 2,957 against, representing a 62% approval vote. The Teamsters president described an aggressive anti-union campaign by Corewell Health. Due to the large size of the bargaining unit, the nurses will have their own local chapter of the Teamsters union.
Hotel workers at a casino in Las Vegas have been on strike since Friday, asking for a new five-year contract and rejecting the hotel’s proposal of $0.30 per year raises. The hotel has hired scabs to maintain operations, citing almost 650 applications for the vacant positions. The strike is set to continue during the heavily-attended Formula One weekend, which began yesterday. Some have criticized the Laborers Union Pension Fund of Eastern and Central Canada, upon discovering that they, among other investors, own the hotel in question. Workers report being ignored and dismissed by the pension fund when they attempted to contact them, including by going to their offices in person.
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February 27
The Ninth Circuit allows Trump to dismantle certain government unions based on national security concerns; and the DOL set to focus enforcement on firms with “outsized market power.”
February 26
Workplace AI regulations proposed in Michigan; en banc D.C. Circuit hears oral argument in CFPB case; white police officers sue Philadelphia over DEI policy.
February 25
OSHA workplace inspections significantly drop in 2025; the Court denies a petition for certiorari to review a Minnesota law banning mandatory anti-union meetings at work; and the Court declines two petitions to determine whether Air Force service members should receive backpay as a result of religious challenges to the now-revoked COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
February 24
In today’s news and commentary, the NLRB uses the Obama-era Browning-Ferris standard, a fired National Park ranger sues the Department of Interior and the National Park Service, the NLRB closes out Amazon’s labor dispute on Staten Island, and OIRA signals changes to the Biden-era independent contractor rule. The NLRB ruled that Browning-Ferris Industries jointly employed […]
February 23
In today’s news and commentary, the Trump administration proposes a rule limiting employment authorization for asylum seekers and Matt Bruenig introduces a new LLM tool analyzing employer rules under Stericycle. Law360 reports that the Trump administration proposed a rule on Friday that would change the employment authorization process for asylum seekers. Under the proposed rule, […]
February 22
A petition for certiorari in Bivens v. Zep, New York nurses end their historic six-week-strike, and Professor Block argues for just cause protections in New York City.