January 26th 2021
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This is the first post in a series of three. Check back tomorrow and Friday for part two and part three. It’s a fraught time for tech workers. The tech sector, which for decades has largely remained outside the realm of organized labor, has emerged over the past...
Senate Republicans are expected to unveil plans for a new stimulus package today. White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow stated that the new plan will include another round of $1,200 checks for Americans. The Republican plan will also include enhanced...
According to a study by Bloomberg, as many as 30% of current job losses could be permanent. The study suggests that many of these jobs will succumb to what is known as “reallocation shock” in which the current economic disruption essentially leads to a different...
The uprising in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery has left a mark on the labor movement. After protestors broke windows and set the lobby of the AFL-CIO’s headquarters ablaze on Sunday night, the Amalgamated Transit Union...
Ensuring that internet searches and social networking feeds remain free of graphic violence and explicit sexual content is no easy task. Companies like Facebook, Google and YouTube rely on thousands of content moderators in the U.S. and abroad to remove illegal or...
Chicago Public School classes remain cancelled today as negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) continue. The sides met for 16 hours yesterday, with talks extending into the early morning. As Tabatha noted yesterday, the city and members...
Yesterday the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in a 26-21 vote. It now proceeds to the House Committee on Rules. Among other reforms, the bill would broaden the definitions of employee and employer under...
More than 1.3 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past decade as a result of private equity ownership in retail, according to a new report from nonprofits and worker advocacy groups. This number includes 600,000 retail workers and 728,000 workers in...
Two decades after its introduction, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act passed both the New York State Assembly and Senate yesterday. The bill guarantees farmworkers collective bargaining rights, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits, and also...
Five states are suing the Trump administration to block a rule that would ban automatic deductions for union dues from the paychecks of home health workers paid for by Medicaid. The attorneys general of California, Washington, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and...
In a regulatory filing with the SEC on Thursday, Uber reported that it has reached agreements that will end a “large majority” of the over 60,000 arbitration claims drivers have filed alleging misclassification as independent contractors, rather than employees....
Yesterday the Senate confirmed Janet Dhillon to serve as the new chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a 50-43 vote. Dhillon joins Republican Victoria Lipnic and Democrat Charlotte Burrows on the Commission, bringing its membership to three out...