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May 28, 2024
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

Businesses challenge the DOL’s new overtime rule, Illinois grows closer to passing a ban on captive audience meetings, and railroad unions raise concerns over remote-controlled trains.

November 23, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A majority of teachers in Northbrook School District 28 in Illinois have declared their intent to form a union. District 28 is one of the few public school districts in Illinois that is not unionized, as less than 10% of teachers in the state are not members of the Illinois Federation of Teachers or the […]

August 16, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and United Steelworkers President Tom Conway are kicking off the USW’s “We Supply America” bus tour to advocate for the current congressional infrastructure bill. The bus tour partly hopes to highlight the connection between infrastructure investment and good-paying steelworker jobs. Starting at the USW Local 6787 union hall in Chesterton, the […]

May 25, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A United Airlines worker has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the Railway Labor Act’s opt-out system for union dues for railway and airline workers. Under the Railway Labor Act, employees who are not union members but are represented must affirmatively opt out of paying full union dues. The petitioner, Arthur Baisley, is arguing […]

June 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Since the pandemic began, declines in workforce participation have proven particularly stark among women. Experts attribute this phenomenon in part to women’s disproportionate representation in service-sector businesses, which have been especially affected by the pandemic. Turmoil in the child care industry has also played a major role; around 60% of U.S. child care centers closed […]

August 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

The Nation reported today on working conditions for participants in the Summer Work Travel (SWT) program, which provides over 100,000 foreign college students with J-1 visas to work in the United States each summer. According to a recent investigation by the International Labor Recruitment Group, SWT participants are frequently victims wage theft, and workplace harassment […]

June 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Following a ten-month grassroots campaign led by the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance (PDWA) and supported by over forty unions and community organizations, the Philadelphia City Council introduced a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights last Thursday. If passed, this bill would guarantee written contracts; minimum wage; overtime; paid time off and rest breaks; advanced scheduling notice; […]

February 8, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided against a transgender employee who brought a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex under Title VII. Nicole Wittmer, a transgender woman, sued Phillips 66 after the company withdrew an employment offer it made to Wittmer after interviewing her. The company claimed […]

December 2, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The nation’s minimum wages are lower than the wages the nation’s voters would prefer, according to a Pew Research Center survey. While many workers across the nation have been celebrating recent victories for higher minimum wages, the average state resident prefers a wage approximately two dollars higher than her state’s mark. The Washington Post’s Christopher […]

November 12, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

After winning back the House of Representatives in last Tuesday’s election, House Democrats plan to grill President Trump’s Department of Labor about its policies regarding tipped workers. In December, the DOL proposed a rule allowing employers who pay tipped workers the minimum wage to take their workers’ tips. According to the Economic Policy Institute, such […]

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