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June 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

In today’s news and commentary: Biden calls for gas tax moratorium, Supreme Court invalidates Washington workers’ compensation law, Eighth Circuit upholds Arkansas law forbidding state contractors from “boycotting” Israel, Senators introduce the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act, and the Labor Department hires 100 new investigators after record lows in wage and hour staffing.

May 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

The Federal Trade Commission has cemented a Democratic majority among the commissioners, as the Senate confirmed Professor Alvaro Bedoya on Wednesday. The 51-50 vote, with a tiebreaker from Vice President Kamala Harris, signals a shift that will empower Chair Lina Khan to advance her policy agenda after months of 2-2 deadlock between commissioners. Although Bedoya […]

April 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent an official letter to President Biden, obtained by POLITICO, urging the President to sign an executive order preventing companies that violate federal labor law from contracting with the federal government, which would fulfill a Biden campaign promise. Sanders pointed out that in the past two decades Amazon has received […]

December 12, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Across the Midwest and South, communities were left to dig through wreckage and rubble this weekend after a rare winter tornado outbreak – some traveling more than 200 miles – wrought a wide swath of devastation from Missouri through Kentucky on Friday night. In Illinois, at least six Amazon workers were killed – and an […]

September 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Missouri public employees’ unions continue to struggle against the governor’s office for collective bargaining. In 2018, former Governor Eric Greitens signed a law that gave meager raises in exchange for changing the states’ merit hiring system, effectively reclassifying state workers into at-will employees. Since then, current Governor Mike Parson, who was Greitens’s lieutenant governor, has […]

July 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

A Reuters report released over the weekend, which analyzed two decades of retail wages in the United States, found that union workers get paid more on average than their nonunion counterparts – and that the gap between the compensation of union and nonunion workers has been growing since the financial crisis. The report, which used […]

May 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

President Joe Biden intends to nominate Gwynne Wilcox, a union-side labor lawyer, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the White House announced yesterday. As a senior partner at Levy Ratner and associate general counsel for SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East in New York, Wilcox made waves through a landmark unfair labor practice case […]

May 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Yesterday, in celebration of May Day – which, as the Chicago History Museum noted yesterday morning, was designated in 1889 by an international group of socialists and trade unionists, who formed the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, as a day to support workers and honor the achievements of the labor movement, in remembrance of […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

April 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Saturday, Politico reported that labor groups are cautioning that the American Jobs Plan, President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, which, as Maxwell noted on this blog on Thursday, includes an effort to decarbonize the economy, meaning a transition away from coal jobs and a focus instead on constructing massive solar and wind facilities, could […]

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