July 7th 2022
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Yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 4445, a landmark, bipartisan “#MeToo” bill that bans forced arbitration agreements for workplace sexual harassment or assault claims, giving workers the choice to take their claims to court instead of being forced to have their...
A record 2.9% of U.S. workers left their jobs in August, marking the highest month-to-month quits rate of the century. According to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), some 4.2 million workers resigned from work, including over...
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United...
Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees...
In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was...
Business groups have initiated a legal challenge to to delay a Trump-era rule that would clear the way for businesses to classify more workers as independent contractors. In a complaint filed Friday in the Beaumont Division of the U.S. District Court for the...
In a press release yesterday, district attorneys in both Los Angeles County and San Francisco announced a joint worker protection action against Handy Technologies, Inc., alleging that the housekeeping and home-services company had misclassified tens of thousands...
For all the hand-wringing those interested in workers' rights have done in the past few months, there is some cause for optimism: the comparatively progressive labor agenda heralded by a flipped Congress and a Democratic administration. Commenters expect a...
Uber and Lyft suffered a major loss in court yesterday when a California state judge ruled that the ride-sharing behemoths must classify their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. California sued Uber and Lyft arguing the companies were in...
In response to the California legislature’s passage of Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a bill that largely codifies the California Supreme Court’s decision last year in Dynamex Operations West, Uber is claiming that it will continue to classify its workers as independent...
Happy Labor Day! Rebecca Burns writes in Truthout about why workers should celebrate this Labor Day. Burns points to the continued success of teachers strikes; successful private-sector strikes in a diverse range of industries; increased labor support for a Green...