August 2nd 2021
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SEIU Local 888 has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations against the city of Boston for not seeking the union's input nor bargaining over the city's COVID-19 reopening plan. The city has already faced criticism for being inflexible in...
Workers and management at the New Yorker reached an agreement yesterday regarding the terms of their first collective bargaining agreement. Prior to coming to agreement on terms, the union threatened to strike. The labor effort is fairly recent; only three years...
Labor conflicts at Amazon continued this week, this time with new lawsuits against the e-commerce giant alleging racial and gender discrimination. Five women, current and former employees, sued Amazon alleging that Amazon managers used racial epithets against...
In the last week, at least 18 states led by Republican governors have moved to terminate the enhanced federal unemployment benefits, which include an additional $300 per week, in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package in an effort to address the...
Nikita yesterday joined a flurry of voices commenting on the "labor shortage" reported by American businesses — especially the restaurant industry. In support of the Chamber of Commerce's call for a repeal of supplemental unemployment benefits, Republican Sen....
Investment in public transportation is a crucial step towards combatting climate change, reducing air pollution, addressing traffic congestion, and expanding mobility. But how we design public transportation is also at stake. When we increase fares, slash services,...
As the coronavirus pandemic finally, fitfully, draws to some sort of conclusion, the “essential worker” discourse that occupied headlines and corporate advertisements for months is beginning to fade commensurately. The corporate executives, commentators,...
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd last summer, was convicted by a jury on all three of the charges against him -- second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter. Chauvin’s sentencing is scheduled...
After furloughing its stagehand workers at the start of the pandemic, the Met is now negotiating for pay and benefits cuts and outsourcing stagehand labor to non-union shops. At the onset of the pandemic, management invoked its force majeure clause to furlough...
On Saturday, the Senate voted 50-49 to pass Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, after a marathon debate that lasted for more than 24 consecutive hours. The package was passed through the budget reconciliation process,...
In Bessemer, Alabama, the Amazon unionization campaign continued apace this weekend – and so did Amazon’s efforts to thwart union organizers and its own workers. Amazon has adopted increasingly extreme measures to ward off the impending unionization, including...
As the words “remote work,” “quarantine,” and “social distancing” were fixed into the public lexicon in the last year, millions of frontline workers, in grocery stores, warehouses, hospitals, retail shops, restaurants, and factories, have been forced to continue...