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Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

Nov 1, 2023 German Bender

German Bender on the first ever labor strike against Tesla.

Starbucks and the Failure of Labor Law

Jul 21, 2023 Benjamin Sachs

Megan Stack's article in today's NYT is an incredible piece of labor journalism that, among its other virtues, paints a devastatingly accurate picture U.S. labor law.

Worrying Signs from the World’s Most Unionized Country

Jul 13, 2023 German Bender

German Bender on Sweden's eroding labor power.

May 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary, an anti-union Apple memo leak; union election filings at a Target store in Virginia; a piece by Steven Greenhouse calling on national labor unions to poor resources into supporting self-organized union efforts; and the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Low-Wage Work in California Data Explorer. An anti-union memo from Apple was […]

August 12, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Record temperatures are sweeping across the U.S., and agricultural workers are paying the price. The United Farm Workers has tracked at least three heat-related deaths this season. One analyst noted the dynamics at play, writing that compared to the meatpacking industry, “Hired farmworkers are just as vulnerable, if not more. Roughly half lack legal immigration […]

April 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

Last week, more than 714,000 people turned to state unemployment systems for relief, 63,000 more than the week prior. Despite the increase, many economists are hopeful, as current trends have been marked by an increase in hiring and a decrease in layoffs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March jobs report seems to confirm these trends. Nonfarm payroll employment […]

February 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that nonfarm employment slightly increased by 49,000 jobs in January, bringing the national unemployment rate to 6.3%. Yet, there continues to be a disparity in job gains among different sectors. Notably, while professional and business service payrolls increased by 97,000, the leisure and hospitality sector lost 61,000 […]

January 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

Last week, according to the Department of Labor (DOL), 900,000 people filed for state unemployment assistance. While the number of new claims did decrease by 26,000, many economists note that these “claims continue to show a job market unable to progress further as long as COVID-19 remains in the driver’s seat.” Highlighting the current strain on the […]

January 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Some 6,000 front-line workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail in February and March on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the NLRB said Friday. The NLRB rejected Amazon’s push to hold the election in-person, citing safety concerns in light of COVID-19. Ballots will be mailed […]

September 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

This Labor Day weekend, the state of work in America is at a dramatic crossroads. While professional-class employees work from home at unprecedented rates, the service sectors in urban areas where their erstwhile offices are concentrated have seen job losses by the millions—and those jobs won’t all come back after the pandemic ends, The New […]

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Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

Starbucks and the Failure of Labor Law

Worrying Signs from the World’s Most Unionized Country

May 13, 2022

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