July 7th 2022
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In today’s news & commentary, Southern states enact new laws to protect gig companies, the UK rail strike may not be over yet, and Starbucks Workers United creates a national newsletter. State legislatures in Alabama and Georgia have weighed in on the gig...
A brief filed this week by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo called for the reinstatement of the Joy Silk doctrine, Bloomberg Law reports. Currently, a bargaining order may only issue in cases where an “employer’s misdeeds are so widespread they make a fair...
In today's news and commentary: the NLRB plans to accuse Starbucks of unlawful firings;an economist explains how antitrust law can protect worker power;mental health–based employment bias claims are on the rise;and more on the NLRB GC's memo against "captive...
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,...
Forced arbitration denies workers their day in court. Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult for workers to avoid arbitration. This month, the Court will hear three more cases involving arbitration-related disputes. The...
The latest version of the government’s budget bill for fiscal year 2022 dispenses with increases in funding for the NLRB included in previous versions of the bill. The new version proposes maintaining the board’s funding at $274 million, the same amount the Board...
Despite company attempts to quash a unionizing effort, the first REI location in the U.S. has overwhelmingly voted to unionize. Eighty-eight workers at an REI in Manhattan voted in favor of unionizing, with 14 opposed. As previously mentioned on this blog, the...
On December 9, the European Commission issued a package of proposed regulations of platform work. This legislative initiative came after a long period of lobbying, consultation, and research by business groups, unions, and academics on the problems emerging from...
Yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 4445, a landmark, bipartisan “#MeToo” bill that bans forced arbitration agreements for workplace sexual harassment or assault claims, giving workers the choice to take their claims to court instead of being forced to have their...
Is the U.S. labor movement in a moment of resurgence? Last Friday, NPR published this big-picture snapshot and forecast of the American labor movement. In recent months, union success has dominated national headlines: breakthrough victories at Starbucks,...
Last week, Uber Canada and UFCW-Canada made a surprise announcement that they had reached “a historic national agreement” for representation rights affecting some 100,000 Uber workers in Canada. The “Agreement” has not been made public yet, but the press...
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...