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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August 1
The Michigan Supreme Court grants heightened judicial scrutiny over employment contracts that shorten the limitations period for filing civil rights claims; the California Labor Commission gains new enforcement power over tip theft; and a new Florida law further empowers employers issuing noncompete agreements.
July 31
EEOC sued over trans rights enforcement; railroad union opposes railroad merger; suits against NLRB slow down.
July 30
In today’s news and commentary, the First Circuit will hear oral arguments on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) revocation of parole grants for thousands of migrants; United Airlines’ flight attendants vote against a new labor contract; and the AFL-CIO files a complaint against a Trump Administrative Executive Order that strips the collective bargaining rights of the vast majority of federal workers.
July 29
The Trump administration released new guidelines for federal employers regarding religious expression in the workplace; the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers is suing former union president for repayment of mismanagement of union funds; Uber has criticized a new proposal requiring delivery workers to carry company-issued identification numbers.
July 28
Lower courts work out meaning of Muldrow; NLRB releases memos on recording and union salts.
July 27
In today’s news and commentary, Trump issues an EO on college sports, a second district court judge blocks the Department of Labor from winding down Job Corps, and Safeway workers in California reach a tentative agreement. On Thursday, President Trump announced an executive order titled “Saving College Sports,” which declared it common sense that “college […]