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November 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

17 workers in Chicago-area McDonald’s workers are suing the fast-food chain alleging that it did not do enough to protect them from violence at work. While 90% of McDonald’s stores are operated by franchisees, the suit casts blame on corporate, focusing on the way that corporate-dictated store design and training materials left workers vulnerable to […]

November 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

A former McDonald’s employee is suing the company for its pervasive culture of sexual harassment. Plaintiff Jenna Ries alleges that she was frequently harassed by her manager while working at a McDonald’s in Mason, Michigan between 2017 and 2019. Ries told reporters that she also witnessed her coworkers, some of who were underage, being harrassed, […]

November 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

In the aftermath of the Chicago teachers’ strike, which ended on October 31, students and teachers are struggling to catch up on missing work. Some high school seniors who were unable to take the SAT during the strike have now missed early admission deadlines. A few Illinois state schools have responded by extending admissions deadlines […]

July 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Trump Administration’s Office of Personnel Management has proposed a new rule that would enable federal workers to drop their union membership at any time after their first year. As Heather Gies explains for In These Times, “A rolling opt-out rule would mark a break from current practice, in which workers can revoke their membership […]

June 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Five senators signed on to a letter by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) calling on McDonald’s to require franchisees to implement its newly updated harassment policies. The letter points out that “independently owned operations make up the vast majority of the over 14,000 McDonald’s locations across the U.S” and that Steve Easterbrook, McDonald’s CEO, has only […]

May 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

A New York State appeals court has ruled that farmworkers have a fundamental right to unionize. The 4 – 1 decision invalidates a portion of a 1937 law that specifically excludes farmworkers in New York from exercising collective bargaining rights. The suit began in 2016, after Crispin Hernandez, a dairy worker, was fired from his job for […]

May 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the NLRB ruled against the UAW in its bid for a new election to represent both skilled production and maintenance employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In December 2015, the Board certified the UAW as the representative of only the maintenance employees following an election victory for that unit after the union’s […]

May 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, a group of labor organizations filed 23 new sexual harassment charges and lawsuits against McDonald’s. The Fight for $15 organization, the ACLU, and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund filed 20 complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and three civil rights lawsuits, alleging gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for reporting both, […]

April 11, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Tuesday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the right of unions to serve as the exclusive representatives of employees in public sector bargaining units. In Branch v. Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, four government employees represented by unions challenged the state’s labor law on constitutional grounds, claiming that the law’s mandatory agency fee and exclusive […]

March 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This week the National Employment Law Project released a report detailing how gig companies like Uber and Handy have led a state-by-state lobbying effort with corporate partners to strip gig workers of the legal protections afforded to employees. The report explains that in 2018 alone, the companies’ coordinated campaign resulted in the introduction of bills […]

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