January 25th 2022
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With job market data from the Fall coming into focus, it is becoming ever clearer that Striketober was accompanied by a period of unprecedented worker mobility. This “Great Escape” is the subject of an extended profile by David Dayen in this morning’s...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the monthly jobs report this morning, showing a nonfarm payroll increase of 1.8 million jobs, as well as a slight decrease in the unemployment rate to 10.2% for the month of July. The industry with the largest...
It was supposed to be the first union for food delivery app couriers in North America. In February 2020, the labor relations board for the Canadian province of Ontario found that couriers working for Foodora, a food delivery app, were eligible to unionize. Yet,...
Uber is using the COVID-19 pandemic to try to persuade the federal government to adopt its position that its drivers are not employees under labor and employment law. In a letter sent to President Trump and other political leaders, Uber CEO Dana Khosrowshahi...
Initial unemployment uninsurance (UI) claims for the week ending on Saturday, March 14 jumped 33% - an rise unseen since 1992 - to 281,000 from 211,000 the prior week. For the two years prior to the outbreak, UI claims had hovered between 210,000-230,000 a week....