May 16th 2021
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McDonald’s workers in 15 U.S. cities are set to strike on May 19 to demand that the company pay all of its workers at least a $15 minimum wage. The strike will occur one day before McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting, and takes place amidst a purported labor...
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...
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,...
The Senate is set to vote on two stimulus measures this Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN reports. They will first vote on the stand-alone Paycheck Protection Program designed to provide relief to small businesses. Then, on Wednesday, Senate Republicans will try to pass a...
Another 860,000 Americans filed for unemployment this week. The total number of filings now stands at 12.628 million, slightly down from last week's 13.385 active claims. As the Center for American Progress reports, about 12 million of the roughly 50 million...
The House Committee on Education and Labor issued a subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board for records about potential conflicts of interest, The Washington Post reports. The Committee is specifically concerned with conflicts involving William Emanuel, an...
The Department of Labor has issued a new rule reinterpreting the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which Congress passed in March as part of its coronavirus stimulus measures. Their initial interpretation of the rule--which a Federal judge overruled due to...
The last week of increased unemployment benefits has ended with no agreement in Congress to extend them, CNN reports. Republicans in Congress have proposed plans that would reduce the weekly benefit from its current $600 level to between $200 and $400. Democrats...
The Department of Labor reported this morning that another 1.4 million Americans filed for state unemployment benefits in the last week. New numbers mark the first increase in the weekly tally in the past three months. In addition, about 975,000 workers not...
The jobs report released today reflects a rise in unemployment claims, but at a declining pace for the seventh straight week following the record peak in late March. Weekly jobless claims totaled 2.4 million for the week ending on May 16, bringing the total since...
What’s in labor news today? A cursory Google search gives the impression that organized labor is today plagued by fractious infighting. Indeed, there is no shortage of articles highlighting the apparent ideological divisions among labor unions in the face of a...
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) directed an Administrative Law Judge to approve a series of proposed settlement agreements proffered by McDonald’s in a long-running dispute over unfair labor practices committed by its franchisees—a dispute that...