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September 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: Congressional staffers form the first-ever union, more Congressional offices hold union elections, and the last remaining rail union signs a tentative agreement. Staffers in the office of Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin voted unanimously to unionize. While staffers voted last week, the union announced the results on Monday. This marks the […]

September 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: The White House intervenes to prevent the railroad strike, data shows that New York City’s $15 minimum wage law fueled job growth and reduced poverty, and an ILO report highlights the growth of modern slavery in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The threat of a railroad strike continues. As parties […]

September 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: tens of thousands of railroad workers face a strike deadline on Friday, and union organizing progresses for minor league baseball players, Condé Nast employees and workers at an Amazon Warehouse in Moreno Valley, CA. Over the weekend, two railroad worker unions continued to push for an agreement that would improve […]

August 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a move to express solidarity with Uber Drivers, Uniting Church told its workers yesterday to stop using Uber, citing the company’s “unethical foundations.” The Church is the largest non-government provider of services to the community in all of Australia. The Church pointed to the recent “Uber Files” report and Uber’s practices of mistreating its […]

August 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, OSHA fines two Family Dollar stores in Ohio, US railroad workers may be gearing up to strike, and a new Washington Post article discusses the impacts of inflation on Government workers. Two Ohio Family Dollar stores are each facing over $500,000 in fines, according to a Monday Department of Labor […]

July 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Wind energy production is projected to massively expand in the coming decades, and organized labor is maneuvering to take advantage of that development. The Biden administration revealed last year that it aspires to generate tens of thousands of U.S. jobs producing offshore wind power by 2030, and unions are agitating to insure that many of […]

June 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary: McDonalds no-poach agreement survives in court, legislation protecting nursing parents at work is stalled, accounts of low-wage and precarious work in the solar power industry, a union of knights and squires, global concern for the right to strike and organize, and an international pilot program to help compensate workers injured […]

January 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

California’s controversial AB5 law came into effect on January 1, to fierce opposition from industry. The law codifies the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex test for classifying workers as employees, rather than independent contractors. Last week, Uber and Postmates filed a suit to challenge the law, arguing that the state legislature’s decision to exempt certain industries […]

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