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January 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, NLRB prosecutors accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by threatening, interrogating and surveilling workers at a New York warehouse where a unionization effort was underway. According to the NLRB complaint, an Amazon consulting promised to solve employees’ problems if they did not support the union, interrogated employees about their union activities, prevented employees […]

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 […]

November 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

Activists and workers in 20 countries will protest against Amazon on Black Friday, Insider reports. The effort is part of a larger campaign, Make Amazon Pay, that is being organized by environmental, consumer, and workers’ groups. The campaign organizers say that “from oil refineries, to factories, to warehouses, to data centers, to corporate offices,” Amazon […]

November 7, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

In a victory for the Biden Administration, the House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday, giving final approval to a central piece of President Biden’s domestic agenda that aims to rebuild the country’s public works system, expand access to high-speed internet service and provide funding for new climate resilience initiatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]

October 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

New York City cab drivers announced a hunger strike this week, after having occupied a sidewalk outside City Hall operating a 24-hour picket line for over a month, calling on the de Blasio administration to provide a more robust response to the industry’s slow-moving yet staggering crisis of medallion debt. As New York Magazine put […]

On-App Standby as Work Time in International Labor Law

Oct 22, 2021 Tiran Bajgiran

Suppose as a premise that Uber drivers are employees. What, then, constitutes their “hours of work” under international labor standards? The question is timely given two parallel trends in the global ride-hailing economy. One is a growing transnational backlash at Uber’s misclassification of gig drivers as independent contractors — in jurisdictions ranging from Canada to […]

September 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. The measure, filed with state authorities last month, claims to mandate an hourly pay standard […]

September 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

As the corporate funded drive to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom enters its final phase, the governor’s campaign has increasingly relied on labor unions to galvanize supporters. Indeed, unions in the Golden State have spent millions to combat what they have framed as an “anti-worker” and “anti-union” recall effort. Although a wave of support from […]

September 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition 22, was one of 17 out of 30 proposed ballot initiatives certified by the Attorney General as having met baseline state […]

August 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

State legislatures are playing an outsized role in American politics, the New York Times reports. While Republicans are out of power in Washington by a slim margin, they control 30 state legislatures, 26 of which will redraw congressional districts (compared to thirteen for Democrats). But these legislatures don’t have to wait for redistricting to drive […]

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