November 8, 2024 News & Commentary Stanford Graduate Workers Union authorizes a strike; Massachusetts voters reject One Fair Wage ballot initiative; UAW Labor for Palestine launches divestment campaign.
September 11, 2024 News & Commentary New York Times tech workers authorize a strike, labor organizers and Palestine activists work together on college campuses, and Samsung workers continue a strike in India.
June 2, 2024 News & Commentary Three University of California campuses join the strike against the suppression of pro-Palestine protests; a stagnant federal minimum wage impedes the DOL from combatting wage theft; House Democrats call on the NLRB to investigate Google.
April 10, 2024 News & Commentary NLRB general counsel vows not to succumb to pressure from SpaceX, Amazon, and others, the NLRB will seek make-whole remedies for unlawful work rules, and the LA County Federation of Labor joins the call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
February 14, 2024 News & Commentary The American Association of University Professors signs on to a call for ceasefire in Palestine, the NLRB gives Dartmouth’s trustees extra time for a review of the board’s ruling on labor unions for NCAA athletes, and Swedish unions temporarily lift Tesla repair-shop blockade.
December 3, 2023 News & Commentary UAW calls for ceasefire, Massachusetts considers collective bargaining law for rideshare drivers
November 19, 2023 News & Commentary UAW members approve Big Three contracts, and judge blocks union from voting on Gaza resolution
October 20, 2023 News & Commentary Starbucks sues Starbucks Workers United for use of company's IP in support of Palestine; and Senate HELP Committee top Republican criticizes DOL's child labor response.
May 21, 2021 News & Commentary The Biden administration has apparently determined that it is helpless to stop the rollbacks of pandemic unemployment assistance in red states. Republican Governors in Arizona, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere have eliminated the $300 weekly payment to unemployed workers, included in the American Rescue Plan out of a mostly-unfounded belief that the benefit was causing a […]
May 19, 2021 News & Commentary As restaurants across the country struggle to adequality staff their kitchens and facilities, many conservative policymakers have begun ascribing this purported “labor shortage” to the enhanced unemployment benefits made available during the pandemic. Top White House economic advisers sought to refute such contentions in a memo issued Tuesday, which posits that the labor shortages represent “a positive […]
