May 26th 2022
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The Federal Trade Commission has cemented a Democratic majority among the commissioners, as the Senate confirmed Professor Alvaro Bedoya on Wednesday. The 51-50 vote, with a tiebreaker from Vice President Kamala Harris, signals a shift that will empower Chair Lina...
The National Labor Relations Board found merit in several charges filed by Amazon Labor Union over Amazon’s conduct in the leadup to the Staten Island election, the New York Times reports. Those charges include that Amazon threatened to withhold benefits from...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced raises and expanded training for employees—except those at unionized stores and stores that have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election, the New York Times reports. Workers United has filed an...
Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted down President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, on a mostly party-line vote that got three Democrats to vote no alongside every Republican senator. The nominee was David Weil, who previously...
The Department of Labor released data today showing that the unemployment rate fell last month in most U.S. states. 12 states have unemployment rates at record lows, including Nebraska and Utah with unemployment rates of 2.1%. However, while unemployment rates are...
Life for American truck drivers has devolved into a “dystopian nightmare,” writes Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein in an op-ed for the New York Times. Before the 1970s, trucking was a “good job, with union representation, decent pay and benefits, and normal hours,” but,...
On April 26, 2021, President Biden, who pledged on the campaign trail to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” signed Executive Order 14025 establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The Task Force’s mission was...
In the midst of the ongoing unionization efforts erupting at dozens of Starbucks franchises throughout the country, seven workers were fired from one Starbucks restaurant located in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday, which allegedly included nearly the entire union...
On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health and safety, an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls organized a warehouse-worker walkout to protest unsafe working...
Yesterday, NLRB prosecutors accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by threatening, interrogating and surveilling workers at a New York warehouse where a unionization effort was underway. According to the NLRB complaint, an Amazon consulting promised to solve...
Last Friday, workers at a Manhattan REI store joined the nascent retail unionization wave by filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers, who seek representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU),...
On Wednesday, after a lengthy fight, Senate Democrats conceded that they did not have the votes necessary to pass the Freedom to Vote Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, or the political leverage necessary to weaken the Senate filibuster...