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September 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

In today’s News and Commentary: the Communication Workers of America reportedly blocked a tech watchdog report regarding Microsoft’s support for the United States military, Seattle school teachers enter their third day on strike, and California fast food employers have already begun organizing against the state’s new labor law. The Intercept reported a labor official belonging […]

May 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, TIME Magazine workers call off threat to strike; Activision-Blizzard workers vote to unionize; Los Angeles strippers look to organize; and McDonald’s workers in Florida stage a walkout. TIME Magazine workers announced Monday that they would no longer be walking out on May 23rd if management had not agreed to a […]

April 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, unions, unions, unions! Union voting at a second Staten Island Amazon warehouse begins, Amazon Labor Union organizers talk about how they made history, and Activision game testers will vote next month on unionizing. Voting began this morning at LDJ5, the second Staten Island Amazon warehouse to hold a union vote […]

April 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

As eight Starbucks locations have had NLRB-certified union elections, with more than 200 filing paperwork to engage in a vote, CEO Howard Schultz has announced that Starbucks may be offering certain new benefits only to non-unionized workers. The Wall Street Journal reported that Schultz stated Starbucks cannot unilaterally change the compensation of unionized workers, so […]

January 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday, the NLRB’s Brooklyn-based regional office announced that it planned to formally accuse Amazon of illegally firing a union organizer in its Staten Island warehouse in November. The NLRB regional director found merit in the claims of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union founded by current and former Amazon employees, which has filed […]

January 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is asking the Board to revisit several Trump-era precedents that narrowed what’s considered concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, Bloomberg Law reports. The General Counsel’s brief challenges an ALJ’s August dismissal of claims that American Federation for Children—a charter school lobbying organization—illegally fired an employee for speaking out about […]

December 7, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A group of quality assurance testers and developers at Activision Blizzard studio Raven Software, responsible for Call of Duty: Warzone, have staged a walkout over terminated testers. This is the third recent worker action at Activision Blizzard. The demonstrating employees have demanded that all quality assurance testers, including those laid off, receive full-time position offers. […]

September 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Part of the current infrastructure bill has a provision that could give competitive advantage to unionized telecom workforces. The bill gives preference to companies with a record of adhering to labor and employment laws for distribution of the $42.5 billion in broadband funds. State and local governments and nonprofits that receive broadband work funds would […]

July 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Analysis of the NLRB’s decision last week to save Scabby the Rat (Lippert Components Inc., 371 NLRB No. 8 (2021)), which Maxwell wrote about last week, continues to roll in. Meagan Day, in Jacobin, celebrated the decision, which she said turned away a “pathetic…attempt at extermination” by former NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb. Day noted […]

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