Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies
Today, the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released a highly relevant and impactful memo on the office's intent to seek a rather stunning new array of remedies in unfair labor practice cases. As I wrote about the last GC memo, if...
Today’s News & Commentary — September 8, 2021
As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 7, 2021
It was not a happy Labor Day for millions of Americans, as they abruptly lost the unemployment benefits that had sustained them for as many as 18 months. Three federal programs that boosted jobless benefits by $600/week (later lowered $300/week) will expire this...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 6, 2021
Today is Labor Day in the United States. And, as on every Labor Day, it is worth pausing to note the oddity—and the irony—of the United States celebrating the holiday on the first Monday in September, rather than the first day of May. The notion of a...
Weekends News & Commentary — September 5, 2021
This weekend, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families will lose federal unemployment benefits entirely, and more than 2 million more will have their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week, as two key federal unemployment programs expire. Pandemic...
Today’s News and Commentary — Friday, September 3, 2021
A new piece by Vice details how the Teamsters Union has thwarted Amazon’s expansion efforts nationwide despite recent failures by the movement to unionize the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse earlier this year. The wins – such as getting Fort Wayne, Indiana to...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 2, 2021
Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition...
With Apple Slack Ban, An Opportunity to Return to Purple Communications
On Tuesday, The Verge’s Zoë Schiffer reported that Apple blocked its employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity. Apple told employees that this was merely the application of its policy that “Slack channels for activities and hobbies not...
Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies
Today, the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released a highly relevant and impactful memo on the office's intent to seek a rather stunning new array of remedies in unfair labor practice cases. As I wrote about the last GC memo, if...
Today’s News & Commentary — September 8, 2021
As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 7, 2021
It was not a happy Labor Day for millions of Americans, as they abruptly lost the unemployment benefits that had sustained them for as many as 18 months. Three federal programs that boosted jobless benefits by $600/week (later lowered $300/week) will expire this...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 6, 2021
Today is Labor Day in the United States. And, as on every Labor Day, it is worth pausing to note the oddity—and the irony—of the United States celebrating the holiday on the first Monday in September, rather than the first day of May. The notion of a...
Weekends News & Commentary — September 5, 2021
This weekend, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families will lose federal unemployment benefits entirely, and more than 2 million more will have their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week, as two key federal unemployment programs expire. Pandemic...
Today’s News and Commentary — Friday, September 3, 2021
A new piece by Vice details how the Teamsters Union has thwarted Amazon’s expansion efforts nationwide despite recent failures by the movement to unionize the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse earlier this year. The wins – such as getting Fort Wayne, Indiana to...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 2, 2021
Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition...
With Apple Slack Ban, An Opportunity to Return to Purple Communications
On Tuesday, The Verge’s Zoë Schiffer reported that Apple blocked its employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity. Apple told employees that this was merely the application of its policy that “Slack channels for activities and hobbies not...
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