July 1st 2022
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Across the Midwest and South, communities were left to dig through wreckage and rubble this weekend after a rare winter tornado outbreak – some traveling more than 200 miles – wrought a wide swath of devastation from Missouri through Kentucky on Friday night. In...
Yesterday, over 750 organizations, elected leaders, and other individuals signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make sure that the Build Back Better Act budget reconciliation bill maintains its paid leave provisions. In the version passed by...
More than 1300 employees at Activision Blizzard have signed a petition calling for the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick after many employees staged a walkout on Tuesday with the same demand. The employee actions come after a Wall Street Journal report alleging that...
On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, won the lottery to hear the consolidation of thirty-four petitions filed by more than two dozen Republican attorneys general, industry groups, corporations, and labor...
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...
Yesterday, OSHA publicized a new rule—an emergency temporary standard (ETS)—that mandates workers at U.S. companies with 100 or more companies to either receive COVID-19 vaccinations or undergo weekly testing and wear a face covering at work. The rule takes effect...
On Saturday, UAW announced that it had reached a second tentative deal on a new six-year contract with John Deere, potentially bringing to a close the massive strike, involving nearly 10,000 workers, which began more than two weeks ago on October 14. The UAW has...
Congressional Democrats’ proposal to institute a national paid family and medical leave program for workers has been officially cut from Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill, according to several outlets yesterday. The proposal, which initially sought to...
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...
The big story this weekend comes out of Washington. The terse negotiations currently unfolding within the Democratic Party are somewhat complicated – but deeply, if indirectly, implicate unions and the labor movement – so it might be helpful to offer some...
The United States could “plunge into an immediate recession,” according to one analysis released Tuesday by Moody’s Analytics, if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling this fall. The debt ceiling, first established in 1917 and raised more than 100 times since...
On Thursday, Biden announced plans for a monumental vaccine mandate that could apply to as many as 100 million Americans. Under the mandate, employers with more than 100 workers will need to either be vaccinated or else face weekly testing; businesses will also be...