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How Prop 22’s Electoral Success Foreshadows Future Fight over Sectoral Bargaining

Dec 5, 2022 Will Ebeler

Will fast-food companies use the same deceptive tactics that Uber and Lyft did to stymie sectoral bargaining?

June 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The AFL-CIO, the county’s largest federation of labor unions, held its 29th Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia earlier this week. The quadrennial gathering supplies a democratic forum in which delegates representing the Federation’s dozens of affiliated unions, as well as the more than thirteen million employees for whom they bargain, convene to give speeches, elect leadership, […]

September 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

As the corporate funded drive to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom enters its final phase, the governor’s campaign has increasingly relied on labor unions to galvanize supporters. Indeed, unions in the Golden State have spent millions to combat what they have framed as an “anti-worker” and “anti-union” recall effort. Although a wave of support from […]

August 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

State legislatures are playing an outsized role in American politics, the New York Times reports. While Republicans are out of power in Washington by a slim margin, they control 30 state legislatures, 26 of which will redraw congressional districts (compared to thirteen for Democrats). But these legislatures don’t have to wait for redistricting to drive […]

August 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was widely seen as a critical test case for the agreement’s unprecedented […]

August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

June 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

SEIU Local 888 has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations against the city of Boston for not seeking the union’s input nor bargaining over the city’s COVID-19 reopening plan. The city has already faced criticism for being inflexible in regards to child care needs when it recalled workers. The union claims […]

What’s Next for California Drivers’ Challenge to Prop. 22?

Feb 19, 2021 Zachary Sorenson

Four app-based drivers and the SEIU are challenging Prop. 22, the California ballot initiative passed last year that exempts app-based drivers from state employment law and reclassifies them as independent contractors. They argue the initiative is unconstitutionally broad and impermissibly constrains both the legislature and courts. After the California Supreme Court declined to hear the […]

January 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The fight over California’s Prop 22 – which made permanent Uber and Lyft’s misclassification of their workers – is not over. A group of gig workers and unions, led by the SEIU, have filed suit in California seeking to overturn the initiative, saying that it violates the state’s constitution. According to the complaint, the California […]

November 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Following the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, focus has pivoted away from the tumult of electoral politics to the work of governance. Given the likelihood of a Republican-majority in the Senate, the incoming Administration is likely to face difficulty enacting the more ambitious facets of his labor agenda, as Deanna wrote yesterday. However, observers are […]

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