April 20th 2021
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The most closely watched U.S. union election in years, perhaps decades, has resulted in a devastating defeat for organized labor as Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. voted overwhelmingly against unionizing with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store...
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...
In keeping with a months-long trend, the past week witnessed a fresh set of revelations of past and present labor abuses by Amazon. Looking backward, the NLRB recently found that the company violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired two employees who...
Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden delighted labor unions by dismissing the notoriously anti-union Peter Robb as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”). As Fred notes, Biden justified his unprecedented...
As Zachary noted yesterday, voting has begun in Bessemer. Over Zoom, with representatives from Amazon and the RWDSU watching, the NLRB is counting ballots from workers in Amazon’s warehouse to see whether they have decided to unionize. Dave Jamieson at the...
On the eve of a union election, an event venue server, frustrated with what he perceives to be management’s continuing disrespect towards its employees, takes to Facebook and uses profane language to describe a supervisor while urging his co-workers to vote to...
After a major legal defeat in Britain, Uber announced it will reclassify more than 70,000 UK drivers as “workers,” which will entitle the drivers to minimum wage, vacation pay and a pension plan. In February 2021 the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber behaved...
After furloughing its stagehand workers at the start of the pandemic, the Met is now negotiating for pay and benefits cuts and outsourcing stagehand labor to non-union shops. At the onset of the pandemic, management invoked its force majeure clause to furlough...
The NLRB announced today that it was ending its effort to overrule via rulemaking Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), which held that graduate student workers at private universities were “employees” under the NLRA and able to unionize. Chairwoman Lauren...
Unions in Myanmar have called a general strike after last month’s military coup overthrew the country’s civilian leadership. Since the February 1st coup which overthrew Myanmar’s first democratically elected government in decades, the ruling junta has engaged in a...
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...
The employee status, and union bargaining rights, of graduate student workers has fluctuated over the last twenty years with the changing of Presidential administrations and the political make-up of the NLRB. But this year is likely to be particularly tumultuous as...