The results of our reader poll are in! We asked: What were the biggest developments in labor law in the past year? Our readers answered that Harris v. Quinn and the fast food campaign are the biggest developments. We’ll have some discussion of these two topics, and why they are the most important, over the next few days. And be sure to read how some leading labor voices voted.
The full results are below:
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September 26
US Maritime Alliance files unfair labor practice charge against longshore workers' union as strike looms, Maine’s Labor Department increases enforcement of wage theft under new state law, and UAW reaches a tentative local agreement at Ford’s tool and die unit in Michigan.
September 25
Faculty and staff of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy appeared before the Washington State Senate Labor and Commerce Committee, Boeing’s machinists union says that the company’s latest pay increase offer is not enough, and the NLRB General Counsel pressured Trader Joe’s to bargain with their workers’ union in Manhattan.
September 24
Organizers collect union authorization cards at Amazon warehouse in North Carolina; NLRB finds Starbucks' ban on union pins unlawful; GM announces layoff amid shift to electric vehicle production
September 23
Travel nurses and forced arbitration; pay transparency laws proliferate; Dockworkers prepare for strike.
September 22
Starbucks attacks the NLRB’s expanded economic make-whole remedies, Eric Blanc argues the NLRB has been a key factor in the current labor surge, and a study finds large, low-wage corporations are investing in stock buybacks rather than capital improvements or workers' wages.
September 20
In today’s News and Commentary, Waffle House workers allege rampant wage theft, employers of seasonal migrant workers in Colorado systematically violate labor laws without consequence, and striking journalists at Law360 win a contract. Waffle House workers, along with the Union of Southern Service Workers, accused the restaurant of a massive scheme of wage theft in […]