May 14th 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has thrust America’s flawed unemployment system into the policymaking spotlight. As millions of Americans lost jobs at the start of the pandemic, federal lawmakers passed the CARES Act to expand unemployment insurance (UI) coverage...
What has sharp teeth, blood-shot eyes, festering nails, looms twelve feet tall, but doesn’t look mean enough to be threatening? Though it might seem like an unlikely subject of cutting-edge labor and constitutional law, the union’s inflatable rat balloon called...
At the early outset of his administration, President Biden—in keeping with his pledge to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”—fired the National Labor Relation Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, after Robb—a pro-management Trump appointee and now...
As Jon covers in today's News and Commentary, Amazon has a "voluntary resignation program" through which it pays warehouse employees about $1000 to quit their jobs. According to reporting on the program, this is an annual "offer" that Amazon makes each February to...
One year ago, we released our Clean Slate for Worker Power report. The report opened by invoking the idea that concentrated economic and political power threatens the functioning of democracy. We recognized that this idea shaped the New Deal and led to the...
Sunday saw almost 174,000 new cases of coronavirus. Hospital beds fill across the country, and most of California is returning to lock down (with a bizarre exception for retail establishments). As Rund reported on Friday, November saw the slowest rate of jobs...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious...
The Labor Department reported 1.48 million new unemployment claims for the week of June 20, revealing the extent to which the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the labor market. While the number of weekly claims has decreased since the beginning of the crisis, a...
As Mackenzie and Zach discussed earlier this week, responses to recent protests by union leaders have reflected a growing divide within the movement. On Monday, the Writers Guild of America, East joined existing calls by the Flight Attendants and numerous...
On May Day, workers at Amazon, Instacart, and Target went out on strike, primarily over health and safety concerns. While the strikes garnered a lot of media attention, it’s not clear how many workers participated, and it does not appear that they have led to...
On January 29th, the House Majority leader indicated that the House would this week consider the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. While the bill passed the labor committee in September 2019, it was put on hold until early January, when House leaders received a...
Two decades after its introduction, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act passed both the New York State Assembly and Senate yesterday. The bill guarantees farmworkers collective bargaining rights, workers’ compensation, and unemployment benefits, and also...