Jacqueline Rayfield is a student at Harvard Law School.
In today’s News and Commentary, 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.
Faculty and staff of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy appeared before the Washington State Senate Labor and Commerce Committee at a work session on Monday, September 23rd. Presenters from the Center included Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs, CLJE Fellow Rajesh Nayak, and CLJE:Lab Project Manager, Yoorie Chang. Topics included the rules of labor law preemption, the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions on worker protections and the administrative state, and the importance of state and local action in protecting workers. The presenters also shared an overview of CLJE’s new resource, “Building Worker Power in Cities and States: A Toolkit for State and Local Policy Innovation.” Watch the session here.
Boeing offered it’s striking machinists a pay increase of 30% on Monday in what the company claims is their “best and final offer.” However, leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 told their members that the company announced the offer while refusing to meet with the union. The union also claims that the 30% increase is not enough. The union originally demanded a 40% increase in salary for workers over the next three years.
The NLRB General Counsel issued a complaint consolidating unfair labor practice charges against a Lower East Side Manhattan Trader Joe’s. The complaint seeks an order requiring the Trader Joe’s store to recognize and bargain with the union under the new Cemex framework. This legal framework requires a company to bargain with a union if it has committed enough unfair labor practices to set aside the results of a unionization vote.
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November 23
Workers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority vote to authorize a strike; Washington State legislators consider a bill empowering public employees to bargain over workplace AI implementation; and University of California workers engage in a two-day strike.
November 21
The “Big Three” record labels make a deal with an AI music streaming startup; 30 stores join the now week-old Starbucks Workers United strike; and the Mine Safety and Health Administration draws scrutiny over a recent worker death.
November 20
Law professors file brief in Slaughter; New York appeals court hears arguments about blog post firing; Senate committee delays consideration of NLRB nominee.
November 19
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel the collective bargaining rights of workers at the U.S. Agency for Global Media; Representative Jared Golden secures 218 signatures for a bill that would repeal a Trump administration executive order stripping federal workers of their collective bargaining rights; and Dallas residents sue the City of Dallas in hopes of declaring hundreds of ordinances that ban bias against LGBTQ+ individuals void.
November 18
A federal judge pressed DOJ lawyers to define “illegal” DEI programs; Peco Foods prevails in ERISA challenge over 401(k) forfeitures; D.C. court restores collective bargaining rights for Voice of America workers; Rep. Jared Golden secures House vote on restoring federal workers' union rights.
November 17
Justices receive petition to resolve FLSA circuit split, vaccine religious discrimination plaintiffs lose ground, and NJ sues Amazon over misclassification.