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August 28, 2024
News & Commentary

Jacqueline Rayfield

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found merit to allegations that Chipotle Mexican Grill violated federal labor law, over 4,000 Fred Meyers workers began a strike in Portland, Oregon, and unionized software workers filed a labor complaint against Activision Blizzard and Microsoft.

September 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Hundreds of dock workers at one of the largest ports in the United Kingdom walked off the job on Tuesday, launching a two-week strike in demand of higher wages. Since thousands of firms, including several transnational giants, rely on the port, the strike threatens to intensify the pressure on an already-strained global supply chain. What’s […]

August 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, workers at a Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan became the first to organize one of the chain’s 3,000 locations; U.S. Senator Bob Casey urged the Department of Labor to take action on the use of workplace surveillance technology, including by Amazon; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. […]

July 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, the U.S. labor market proves resilient, experts look back on — and ahead at — President Biden’s pro-worker agenda, and union momentum reaches Chipotle. The latest Labor Department numbers describe a strong labor market, despite high inflation and rising interest rates. The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs last month — much better than […]

May 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

At a business-journalism conference yesterday, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh spoke out strongly against worker misclassification. Secretary Walsh referred to misclassifying gig workers as one of the “most serious issues” undermining the economy, denying workers access to “critical benefits and protections.” The comments serve as a follow-up to his claim last month that many gig workers […]

March 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, President Biden reached a deal with moderate Senate Democrats to pass his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill through Congress. Under the deal, centrist Democrats withdrew their proposal to reduce expanded unemployment benefits from the currently suggested $400 per week, while the Biden Administration agreed to a lower threshold for phasing out access to stimulus […]

August 17, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

A Florida judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit by Florida teachers challenging the state’s plan to reopen schools amid the pandemic. The suit, filed by the state’s largest teachers’ union, challenges an executive order issued early July by Florida’s education commissioner. The order requires all public and charter schools to open this month. While parents […]

September 11, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a proposal to extend health insurance benefits to the families of approximately 5,000 city employees who assisted police and firefighters with rescue and recovery efforts on and after September 11, 2001. Under current law, only the families of city workers who died while on active […]

December 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Chipotle’s forced arbitration agreements are backfiring spectacularly, reported the Huffington Post. Like the 12,000 drivers pursuing arbitration against Uber, workers are flooding the burrito chain with arbitration cases after the company blocked their claims in court. Chipotle began requiring employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements several years ago, forcing their workers to cede their right to […]

May 28, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, Chipotle has asked the Federal District Court of Colorado to exclude 2,814 workers from a wage theft lawsuit because these workers signed mandatory arbitration agreements barring them from participating in class action or collective lawsuits. In total, 10,000 Chipotle workers are participating in an ongoing […]

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