July 7, 2023 News & Commentary Thousands of Los Angeles hotel workers return to work; major food delivery services sue to enjoin enforcement of a New York City gig worker wage rule; the Guardian reports on the resurgence of the United Farm Worker union.
June 29, 2023 News & Commentary In today’s Tech@Work, military AI is being repurposed for worker surveillance, new questions are raised about the impact of automated farming technology on worker safety, and in Brazil, an increase in phone theft hits gig workers especially hard.
November 17, 2022 News & Commentary Strikes at Starbucks; House passes bill nullifying gag orders around workplace sexual harassment; St. Louis Apple Store workers move to unionize; New York City proposes higher wages for delivery app workers; SCOTUS decision will determine next steps in cases against meatpacking companies by families of workers who died of COVID-19; Missouri doubles down on subminimum wages for disabled workers
Uber Teams Up with an Unlikely Ally: Taxis Uber recently announced a deal to list all New York City yellow cabs on its app. Given the hostile history between Uber and the taxi industry, this partnership comes as a surprise to many. But it is not a one-off — in February 2022, Uber revealed its goal of putting every taxi in the world […]
March 14, 2022 News & Commentary 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 first — Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. — concerns whether an employee must make an additional showing of […]
March 11, 2022 News & Commentary 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 has been receiving since 2014 and much less than the $301.9 million […]
January 19, 2022 News & Commentary NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is asking the Board to revisit several Trump-era precedents that narrowed what’s considered concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, Bloomberg Law reports. The General Counsel’s brief challenges an ALJ’s August dismissal of claims that American Federation for Children—a charter school lobbying organization—illegally fired an employee for speaking out about […]
December 8, 2021 News & Commentary Reuters reported yesterday that Kellogg Co. plans to hire permanent replacements for approximately 1,400 workers who have been on strike from four plants across the Midwest and Southeast since early October. Kellogg had previously threatened to replace striking workers but reiterated its threat—and announced that it had no plans to bargain further with the union—after […]
November 29, 2021 News & Commentary With job market data from the Fall coming into focus, it is becoming ever clearer that Striketober was accompanied by a period of unprecedented worker mobility. This “Great Escape” is the subject of an extended profile by David Dayen in this morning’s American Prospect. “Workers are quitting across the labor force,” Dayen reports. A record […]
September 21, 2021 News & Commentary The Gig Workers Collective is calling on customers to boycott the grocery delivery app Instacart amid what they say are all-time low levels of pay and working conditions after the installation of a new CEO—Fidji Simo—and ahead of Instacart’s anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO). Instacart has been one of the big winners of the pandemic, […]
