July 2nd 2022
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A Sunday New York Times article details the ongoing efforts to unionize Apple store locations throughout the country and the increasingly drastic– but unfortunately predictable – tactics the company has adopted to forestall the fledgling nationwide campaigns. “Two...
The ongoing saga involving the efforts of several dozen quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the video game development studio and subsidiary of Activision Blizzard responsible for developing popular Call of Duty games, to organize a union hit a speedbump...
A group of quality assurance testers and developers at Activision Blizzard studio Raven Software, responsible for Call of Duty: Warzone, have staged a walkout over terminated testers. This is the third recent worker action at Activision Blizzard. The demonstrating...
Tonight, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the five-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the Major League Baseball Players’ Association, which represents 1,200 professional baseball players, and the thirty MLB team owners will expire. The two sides...
On Friday, the House narrowly passed the Build Back Better Act, approving $2.2 trillion in spending over the next ten years to tackle climate change, improve access to healthcare and bolster the nation’s social safety net. The bill passed by a margin of 220-213,...
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
Missouri public employees' unions continue to struggle against the governor's office for collective bargaining. In 2018, former Governor Eric Greitens signed a law that gave meager raises in exchange for changing the states' merit hiring system, effectively...
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and United Steelworkers President Tom Conway are kicking off the USW's "We Supply America" bus tour to advocate for the current congressional infrastructure bill. The bus tour partly hopes to highlight the connection between...
New research suggests that extreme heat produces many more workplace injuries, concentrated among the poorest workers, than most official records suggest—a telling example of how, as the Times puts it, “climate change worsens inequality.” The UCLA study, led by...
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...
Yesterday marked a momentous occasion in the nation's history, as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were inaugurated president and vice president, respectively. Shortly after their swearing in, President Biden wasted little time carrying out...
As vaccine rollout begins, companies and industry groups have begun aggressively lobbying states to give their workers priority after health care workers and nursing home residents. Since each state has discretion regarding who will receive the second round of...