July 3rd 2022
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In today’s news and commentary: a Department of Labor memo on subminimum wages for workers with disabilities; a Fifth Circuit decision that that COVID-19 does not exempt employers from giving notice to employees before mass layoffs; AFL-CIO convention resolutions...
On Wednesday, the NLRB issued a complaint alleging that Amazon engaged in illegal conduct as part of its attempts to discourage unionization at the JFK8 facility, which nonetheless successfully voted to unionize, as Kevin reported on in April. The complaint stated...
Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent an official letter to President Biden, obtained by POLITICO, urging the President to sign an executive order preventing companies that violate federal labor law from contracting with the federal government, which would...
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 post is the fourth of an ongoing OnLabor feature that will update readers on union developments at Amazon. Here are the first, the second, and the third. Today, less than a month after Amazon Labor Union’s (ALU) historic win at a Staten Island warehouse...
This weekend, the Starbucks unionization wildfire continued to blaze across the country, and, as of this Saturday, more than 100 stores across two dozen states – including the company’s “flagship” store in Manhattan – have launched organizing drives with Workers...
Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) appeared on “Fox News Sunday” this morning to say that he will not support President Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, likely sending a death knell to the $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill at the center of...
On Saturday, hospital workers and management at Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare networks, reached a tentative agreement, potentially averting a massive strike, set to begin tomorrow, that would have involved more than 30,000...
The ongoing saga of congressional Democrats’ attempts to squeeze their ‘big, bold’ budget blueprint through the legislative process continues to unfold, though Reuters reports that President Biden and Democratic congressional leaders are finally nearing consensus...
This weekend, as first reported by Deadline, all eyes are on Hollywood. After an unprecedented strike authorization vote earlier this month, in which roughly 92% of eligible members voted and 99% of those who voted authorized a strike, IATSE announced that it...
As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Louisiana today, on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm’s trajectory includes New Orleans in its path and will present a test of the 350 miles of infrastructural...