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December 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Amazon employees are one step closer to unionizing for the first time. The National Labor Relations Board recently determined that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has enough support among workers in Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse to hold an election. The size of the bargaining unit at the warehouse has been a point […]

December 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

As India’s massive farmers’ strike reaches its 20th day, the leaders of farmers’ unions escalated their protests yesterday by holding a day long hunger strike. The strike has been notable for not only its size but also its militant tactics: over the weekend farmers blocked a major highway into Delhi after the police stopped their […]

December 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

California’s labor secretary Julie Su is in serious contention to become the next United States Secretary of Labor, according to a profile in Politico. The Harvard Law School graduate and daughter of Chinese immigrants first received national attention for representing a group of Thai garment workers freed from an El Monte, California sweatshop in 1995. […]

December 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

UK health authorities administered the very first doses of the newly-approved Covid-19 vaccine yesterday. Members of the public could watch on television as individuals like Margaret Keenan, age 90, received the injection on camera. While the vaccine has yet to receive FDA approval in the United States, companies are already vying to guarantee their workers […]

November 29, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Restaurants and bars would have more latitude to pay workers the tipped minimum wage of only $2.13 per hour under a new Department of Labor regulation, Bloomberg Law reports. Under the proposed final rule, employers could pay the lower tipped minimum wage regardless of how much time an employee spends performing non-tipped duties. Under the […]

November 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, the holiday season threatens to increase essential workers’ risk of exposure. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, worker advocates responded to this heightened risk with renewed calls for employee hazard pay, a practice that several companies implemented and then quickly abandoned only a few months into the […]

November 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As millions of Americans attempt to forge some semblance of normal this Thanksgiving, Sentient Media outlines the human cost workers experience in preparing around 45 million turkeys for this year’s holiday. Like much of the meatpacking industry, turkey processing plants have undergone their fair share of COVID-19 outbreaks this year, including at least one incident […]

November 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

A statewide campaign in California aims to educate farmworkers about health, safety and labor rights amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to The Desert Sun. Volunteers and outreach workers will distribute PPE and and packets of information to workers in the fields as well as at churches and food drives. A major goal of the campaign […]

November 24, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Motherboard, a part of Vice, obtained access to over two dozen internal Amazon reports with a plethora of details about Amazon’s spying and monitoring of labor activity in Europe and elsewhere. The report reveals a vast network of monitoring operations that have included hiring Pinkerton operatives, notorious for union-busting, to gather intelligence. Amazon’s security division […]

November 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The pandemic is causing healthcare workers to leave the profession, the New York Times reports. According to the NYT report, many doctors and nurses are retiring early or seeking other work because of conditions created by the pandemic. Some are concerned for their own health, while others are emotionally drained from administering care during the […]

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