August 15th 2022
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President Biden’s recent shake-ups at the NLRB have already begun to bear fruit. Bloomberg reports that the NLRB’s new acting general counsel, Peter Sung Ohr, directed the agency to dismiss a case that his Trump-appointed predecessor, Peter Robb, had initiated to...
President Biden issued an Executive Order Thursday to make it easier for Americans, and particularly those who rely on work-provided benefits, to access health insurance during the pandemic. The order will reopen the federal Obamacare marketplace and create a...
Julie Su is Joe Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of Labor. Su, currently the California Secretary of Labor, was a contender – supported by a number of progressive labor groups – for the Department’s top slot before it went to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. The deputy...
Dear Friends: Almost four years ago, I came to the Labor and Worklife Program here at Harvard Law School, after eight years in the Obama-Biden Administration. Last week, I left LWP to join the Biden-Harris Administration. In 2017, I thought I knew something...
Yesterday marked a momentous occasion in the nation's history, as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were inaugurated president and vice president, respectively. Shortly after their swearing in, President Biden wasted little time carrying out...
One year ago, we released our Clean Slate for Worker Power report. The report opened by invoking the idea that concentrated economic and political power threatens the functioning of democracy. We recognized that this idea shaped the New Deal and led to the...
Jeanna Smialek of The New York Times recently analyzed the changing economic philosophy underlying Biden administration plans to return the job market back to low unemployment. Smialek looked at Biden's appointments and statements from upcoming Biden administration...
Some 6,000 front-line workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail in February and March on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the NLRB said Friday. The NLRB rejected Amazon’s push to hold the election...
As tens of millions of Americans await congressional action on coronavirus relief, talks among lawmakers have hit another snag. Sticking points remain over the extent of federal aid for state and local governments and the nature of lawmakers’ proposed...
As millions of Americans attempt to forge some semblance of normal this Thanksgiving, Sentient Media outlines the human cost workers experience in preparing around 45 million turkeys for this year’s holiday. Like much of the meatpacking industry, turkey processing...
Motherboard, a part of Vice, obtained access to over two dozen internal Amazon reports with a plethora of details about Amazon's spying and monitoring of labor activity in Europe and elsewhere. The report reveals a vast network of monitoring operations that have...
According to ABC News, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued more than $2.8 million in fines and 204 citations to companies in the last few months. These fines cover various COVID-19 related worker protection violations including...