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April 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

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 election impossible,” a standard which the brief argues has “failed to deter […]

April 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

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 audience” meetings. The NLRB is taking legal action against Starbucks for unlawfully firing […]

April 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, the NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released an important memorandum in which she stated her intent to ask the Board to rule that captive audience meetings, and other mandatory meetings where the employer presents anti-union rhetoric, violate the NLRA. The GC memo classifies unlawful mandatory meetings as those where employees are either forced to […]

February 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

On Tuesday, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team—the reigning world champions—reached a $24 million settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation. The settlement resolves a class action the players filed in 2019 alleging violations of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII. The legal proceedings commenced nearly six years ago, when five star players filed a […]

February 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

Pro-union workers are optimistic about the new election underway at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, but they still face significant obstacles, the Guardian reports. Over 6,100 workers are eligible to vote and, because of the facility’s high turnover rate, nearly half of those workers were not there during the first election. Amazon employs over 1 […]

February 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

At a rally yesterday, app workers in New York City announced the formation of a new coalition, Justice for App Workers, AP reports. CBS Local 2 reports that nine groups, representing 100,000 workers, formed the coalition to call for: “a living wage, a safe work environment, an end to unfair deactivation, access to health and […]

January 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

Last Friday, workers at a Manhattan REI store joined the nascent retail unionization wave by filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers, who seek representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), are proposing a bargaining unit of roughly 115 store employees. If successful, the Manhattan store would […]

January 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday, the NLRB’s Brooklyn-based regional office announced that it planned to formally accuse Amazon of illegally firing a union organizer in its Staten Island warehouse in November. The NLRB regional director found merit in the claims of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union founded by current and former Amazon employees, which has filed […]

January 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

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 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Following the first successful unionization of a Starbucks store location, workers at a Starbucks store in Seattle, the home of Starbucks’s headquarters, filed a petition for a union election to be held on January 10. The workers leading the unionization drive at the Broadway and East Denny Way location in Capitol Hill have stated that […]

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