July 5th 2022
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Last month, U.S. trade authorities filed a complaint with Mexican officials to address labor violations at a major Panasonic auto plant in Mexico. The petition marks the third U.S. labor rights complaint against Mexico under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement...
In today’s news and commentary, NLRB prosecutors plan to issue a complain against Amazon for unfair labor practices; Starbucks defends its captive audience meetings; and NLRB Prosecutors lay out their legal theory for why workers wearing Black Lives Matter buttons...
On February 11, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York preserved just cause protections for fast food workers in Restaurant Law Center v. City of New York. This decision lands a significant blow to the norm of at-will employment and is a boon to just cause...
Yesterday, the NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released an important memorandum in which she stated her intent to ask the Board to rule that captive audience meetings, and other mandatory meetings where the employer presents anti-union rhetoric, violate the...
On Thursday, tech workers at The New York Times overwhelmingly voted to certify their union – the Times Tech Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York (which also represents Times editorial workers) – as their exclusive collective bargaining...
This is a condensed version of an article published in the March 2022 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Despite increasing public support for unions, nationwide union membership is at its lowest point since 1936, one year after the passage of the...
This post is the second of an ongoing OnLabor feature that will update readers on union developments at Amazon. Here is the first. A second group of Amazon workers will officially have the opportunity to vote for union representation. Last Thursday, on February 16,...
In American Steel Construction, the National Labor Relations Board will once again decide how much it will tolerate employer litigation over bargaining units as an antiunion weapon. The National Labor Relations Act was supposed to give workers a voice in...
The New York Times published an exposé on Kroger, the U.S.’s largest supermarket chain and the fourth-largest employer in the Fortune 500, whose tremendous financial success during the pandemic has not translated into improved wages and working conditions for many...
This post is the first installment of a new OnLabor feature that will update readers on union developments at Amazon. Last Friday, ballots were sent — for the second time — to more than 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama as the rerun election...
The 2020 election of President Biden coupled with Democratic control of Congress brought with it a new wave of hope for federal labor law reform. But as the prospects of such reform have dimmed, we are left where we have been for decades now: with a severely...
Three cases involving the right of workers to wear Black Lives Matter insignia at work could lead to a change in how the Board interprets Section 7 of the NLRA. The cases involved Whole Foods, Home Depot and Kroger, all of whom have been accused of retaliating...