May 16th 2021
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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...
In 2009, United Steelworkers, the largest industrial union in North America, and Mondragon Corporation in Spain, the largest cooperative enterprise in the world, announced a historic collaborative effort to develop unionized cooperatives, called union-coops, in the...
Despite a membership drop across the United States from pandemic job loss, unions have gained an increased share of workers compared to the nationwide job market. California offers a specific case study. California unions have been able to retain their workers...
The fallout from Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths, among them Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, continued this weekend. U.S. unions and labor leaders have forcefully condemned the events, and many have likened it to an...
All eyes are on the Georgia Senate run-off race. Democrat Raphael Warnock won his race against Republican Kelly Loeffler. The race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue remains close. The nationwide rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is...