June 27th 2022
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Over the last two days, the the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced big changes in the two agencies’ practices that can help facilitate unionization and collective bargaining. First, on Tuesday,...
As an extraordinary heat wave continues to smash all-time records and scorch the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest, melting pipes, roads, and infrastructure, Vice reports that, because of the sweltering temperatures, the region’s agricultural workers, who...
Workers across the country are waging Juneteenth strikes over their major employers’ failures to protect or uplift black lives. In many cases, the respective companies posted disingenuous statements standing against racial oppression during the recent strikes,...
The Labor Department announced this morning that another 5.2 million workers filed for unemployment last week. The new numbers brings the total number of unemployed in the United States to 22 million, or 13.5% of the American workforce. Recent numbers mark...
As the burden of COVID-19 has disproportionately fallen on newly recognized essential workers, unions continue organizing to protect their members working on the frontline. The United Food and Commercial Workers union has partnered with Albertsons Companies, which...
6.6 million people signed up for state unemployment benefits last week, according to Department of Labor data released this morning. As EPI notes, today’s earth-shattering number—over double last week’s record-breaking 3.3. million jobless claims—is likely...