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April 18, 2023
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

The Iowa Senate passes a child labor law allowing more minors to work; the White House announces a sweeping executive order to improve child and family care resources; and the WGA authorizes a writers' strike.

October 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The Hotel Association of New York City filed suit this week alleging that a New York City law requiring certain large hotels that shuttered during the pandemic to pay laid-off workers $500 in weekly severance is preempted by federal law. According to Bloomberg, the law, signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio on October 5, stipulates […]

October 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia is the subject of a scathing New Yorker profile written by Eyal Press. To readers of this blog, many of the subjects discussed will be familiar. But the full account of Scalia’s tenure is incredibly damning: from OSHA’s abdication of its duty to protect workers during the pandemic, to his […]

September 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

As the unemployment rate remains high, workers across the nation are beginning to receive retroactive relief from the Lost Wages Assistance Program. Under the framework, states are using grants apportioned from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund to provide $300 of unemployment benefits to qualifying workers. Qualifying workers are those whose standard weekly unemployment […]

August 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As unemployment benefits declined this week, lawmakers have remained at an impasse over the contents of Congress’s upcoming relief bill. Republicans thus far have offered to extend expanded unemployment benefits at a reduced $400 per week and have proposed around $200 million in aid to state and local governments. Sensing the upper hand, Democrats have […]

July 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

In moments of national crisis, workers and management in critical industries tend to form fragile truces. Most famously, the AFL and CIO both pledged not to strike during World War Two in order to support the war effort. Now, while workers are striking more and in more prominent fashion, there have been fewer strikes in […]

July 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Department of Labor reported this morning that another 1.4 million Americans filed for state unemployment benefits in the last week. New numbers mark the first increase in the weekly tally in the past three months. In addition, about 975,000 workers not qualified for state unemployment benefits signed up for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). The […]

June 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Since the pandemic began, declines in workforce participation have proven particularly stark among women. Experts attribute this phenomenon in part to women’s disproportionate representation in service-sector businesses, which have been especially affected by the pandemic. Turmoil in the child care industry has also played a major role; around 60% of U.S. child care centers closed […]

February 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Child care workers in California have called for a union election. The election is part of a sixteen-year organizing effort by Child Care Providers United, a joint initiative from the SEIU and AFSCME. Workers who provide child care services to California families on government subsidy were granted collective bargaining rights via state legislation introduced late […]

February 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Yesterday, teachers in Denver Public Schools walked off the job in the latest iteration of the teachers strikes that have swept the country. The strike, the city’s first in 25 years, follows over 14 months of negotiations between the teachers union and the school district that have focused on how to calculate base pay. Many […]

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