May 19th 2022
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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...
On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced forthcoming requirements by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management that encourage federal workers to join unions. The announcement flows from Biden’s April executive order which...
President Biden has formed a task force to make recommendations on how to promote labor organizing. Created by executive order, the task force will be led by Vice President Harris and will recommend both ways existing policies can be used to support organized labor...
President Biden is set to sign an executive order this morning bolstering the federal government’s “Buy American” policy. While order’s full text had not yet been released at the time of this post, CNN reported that its key provisions included increasing the...
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...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. You can read OnLabor's discussion of her history on workers' issues on the Seventh Circuit here. You can read OnLabor's discussion of her textualism as it relates to her Kleber decision here....
A California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday from Uber, Lyft, and the State of California about whether the state can recognize drivers as employees with rights to certain benefits under the state’s law AB 5. The companies were ordered to comply...
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday classifying the meat and poultry food supply chain as “critical and strategic materials” under the Defense Production Act. The order delegates authority to the Secretary of Agriculture to take appropriate action...
800 adjunct and non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty at Fordham University reached their first contract with the university earlier this week. Fordham NTT faculty -- represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- won 67%-90% raises for most adjuncts;...