May 19th 2022
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As Bloomberg reported, the House of Representatives cleared the way for congressional staffers to unionize as lawmakers approved the resolution (H. Res. 1096) to confirm the right of staffers to unionize. Technically, the lawmakers did not vote directly on the...
In today’s News & Commentary, Amazon terminates two union-supporting employees at JFK8; Michigan Starbucks workers receive a union election date; TIME Magazine workers threaten to strike; and Tudor's Biscuit World hit with a complaint from the NLRB. Amazon...
The National Labor Relations Board found merit in several charges filed by Amazon Labor Union over Amazon’s conduct in the leadup to the Staten Island election, the New York Times reports. Those charges include that Amazon threatened to withhold benefits from...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced raises and expanded training for employees—except those at unionized stores and stores that have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election, the New York Times reports. Workers United has filed an...
Over the last two days, the the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced big changes in the two agencies’ practices that can help facilitate unionization and collective bargaining. First, on Tuesday,...
As labor organizing spreads rapidly across the country, recent profiles show just how workers get started, the methods they are using, and what inspired their actions. As OnLabor has previously covered here and here, social media has become a powerful organizing...
A brief filed this week by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo called for the reinstatement of the Joy Silk doctrine, Bloomberg Law reports. Currently, a bargaining order may only issue in cases where an “employer’s misdeeds are so widespread they make a fair...
Workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island voted by a margin of 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of unionizing with the independent Amazon Labor Union (ALU). If our labor laws worked, Amazon would now be required to bargain with ALU. But, instead of...
In today's news and commentary: the NLRB plans to accuse Starbucks of unlawful firings;an economist explains how antitrust law can protect worker power;mental health–based employment bias claims are on the rise;and more on the NLRB GC's memo against "captive...
Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan vetoed a statewide paid family and medical leave bill this week. The bill would have guaranteed up to 12 weeks annually for workers with medical need or up 24 weeks for a parent requiring medical need during pregnancy...
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 Friday morning, Amazon workers won a union. The much-anticipated Staten Island organizing drive culminated in an astonishing victory at the NLRB’s New York office, with 2,654 voters – more than 55% -- voting “yes” to being represented by the Amazon Labor Union...