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May 10, 2024
News & Commentary

Esther Ritchin

McDonald's affiliated-group opposes New York bill enhancing worker protections; University of Pennsylvania graduate students vote to unionize; Finland limits strike durations.

March 19, 2024
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

Volkswagen workers in Tennessee file for a union election, the Supreme Court declines to review McDonald’s no-poach agreements, and Pew publishes new polling data about union membership.

June 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary: McDonalds no-poach agreement survives in court, legislation protecting nursing parents at work is stalled, accounts of low-wage and precarious work in the solar power industry, a union of knights and squires, global concern for the right to strike and organize, and an international pilot program to help compensate workers injured […]

May 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, TIME Magazine workers call off threat to strike; Activision-Blizzard workers vote to unionize; Los Angeles strippers look to organize; and McDonald’s workers in Florida stage a walkout. TIME Magazine workers announced Monday that they would no longer be walking out on May 23rd if management had not agreed to a […]

December 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Core Amazon policies and business practices have come under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois that killed six workers last Friday. For one, the incident raised concerns about Amazon’s reliance on contractor labor, an arrangement that enables the company to avoid liability for accidents, while inhibiting union organizing. According […]

August 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday afternoon, the NLRB’s new General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, sworn-in just a few weeks ago, released a detailed memo alluding to plans to reform labor law through transforming Board precedent. The memo identifies types of cases that would be “mandatory submissions to advice” for reexamination by the Regional Advice Branch and the General Counsel’s office […]

August 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, the Biden administration extended the federal CDC eviction moratorium which was originally set to expire this weekend. The moratorium will continue to be in place until October 3, and will cover all counties where the CDC considers the spread of Covid-19 to be “substantial” or “high”—over 80% of U.S. counties as of today. As […]

May 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

As restaurants across the country struggle to adequality staff their kitchens and facilities, many conservative policymakers have begun ascribing this purported “labor shortage” to the enhanced unemployment benefits made available during the pandemic. Top White House economic advisers sought to refute such contentions in a memo issued Tuesday, which posits that the labor shortages represent “a positive […]

Public Nuisance in the Pandemic Workplace: An Old Tort Made New in the Fight for Worker Safety

Mar 15, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Today, businesses and workers alike await the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) decision on whether to issue an emergency temporary standard for workplace safety during the pandemic. The decision, courtesy of a Biden executive order, comes nearly a year after the Trump administration refused to promulgate binding standards of its own, allowing employers to […]

November 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released guidance aimed at protecting nursing home workers from Covid-19 exposure. Among other things, the guidance recommends the increased use of N95 respirators by nursing home workers. As Bloomberg reports, nursing homes in the US have dealt with catastrophic outbreaks of coronavirus. Over 250,000 nursing home residents have tested […]

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