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May 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

This week, the AFL-CIO, after eleven months of research and preparation, quietly released its report on police reform to little fanfare, in contrast to the high-profile launch of their “Racial Justice Task Force” in July 2020. As explained by Hamilton Noland this weekend for In These Times, the AFL-CIO, a vocal advocate for racial justice […]

May 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

In Los Angeles, union members whose friends and family have been killed by the police are organizing with Black Lives Matter LA against the powerful police union there. The Guardian reports that this includes calling on the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor to eject the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) from the umbrella […]

April 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

On Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Daunte Wright was shot to death by police. Daunte Wright was a 20-year-old Black man who was killed during a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was described by his brother as someone who would “give you the shirt off his back.” The police officer who killed Daunte Wright, Kim […]

March 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

The United States Senate voted 68 to 29 on Monday to confirm Marty Walsh, former Mayor of Boston and union leader, as the Secretary of Labor. As a brief history to Secretary Walsh’s labor roots, CNN explains that Walsh first joined the Laborers’ Union Local 223 at age 21 and eventually came to lead the […]

November 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

In anticipation of the coming Biden presidency, Edward Segal, writing for Forbes, examined Biden’s labor plan to see what he can accomplish through solely executive action and what needs congressional approval. Of the reforms listed on Biden’s plan, the ones he can accomplish solely through executive action are restoring and expanding bargaining protections for federal […]

July 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

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 exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer contraception mandate. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence […]

July 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

With 4.8 million new positions, June saw the largest single-month gain in employment US history. The growth was concentrated in health care, retail (740,000 job additions), and hospitality (2 million job additions). The employment growth, however, remains far outstripped by the 22.2 million job losses in March and April. CNBC reports that nearly half of […]

June 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

While individual labor unions and labor groups have continued calling for disaffiliation with police unions, the largest national labor unions’ leadership has largely closed ranks and defended including police unions. One striking defense of police unions recently came from the AFL-CIO’s President Richard Trumka, who defended police unions by analogizing them to employers at an […]

June 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

As part of the Juneteenth labor actions discussed Friday by Rund, almost 40,000 dockworkers that are members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union commenced a work stoppage at all 29 of the U.S.’s west coast ports. It was the largest work stoppage the union has done in over a decade, and the first labor […]

June 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

Workers across the country are waging Juneteenth strikes over their major employers’ failures to protect or uplift black lives. In many cases, the respective companies posted disingenuous statements standing against racial oppression during the recent strikes, while maintaining policies that disparately impact their vulnerable black and brown workers. For instance, Chicago fast-food strikers marched from […]

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