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November 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit held that government employees who paid agency fees to public sector unions cannot recover fees collected prior to the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff in Tuesday’s case was Mark Janus himself. Writing for a three-judge panel, Chief Judge Diane Wood explained that the good-faith defense […]

October 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

More than 30,000 Chicago public school teachers and support staff walked out of classrooms yesterday, in the latest stage of teacher strikes since successful teachers strikes in West Virginia and Kentucky kicked off the #RedforEd movement early last year. CTU teachers are joined by more than 7,500 Chicago Public Schools classroom assistants for students with […]

April 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will decide next term whether federal employment discrimination laws protect LGBT employees. The Court granted certiorari in three cases: Bostock v. Clayton County; Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda; and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Bostock and Zarda are consolidated and present the question whether Title VII’s prohibition on discrimination “because of sex” covers discrimination […]

March 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Oakland teachers voted to ratify their union’s tentative agreement with the school district, thus ending their strike. As reported yesterday in OnLabor, the Oakland Education Association – Oakland Unified School District contract includes an 11% raise over three years, a one-time 3% bonus, reductions in class sizes in high needs schools, an increase in the […]

February 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Since late January, tens of thousands of unionized and non-unionized workers in Matamoros, Mexico — a city which borders Brownsville, Texas — have gone out on strike. Workers at maquiladoras (tax-advantaged factories), delivery drivers and others are calling for a 20% wage hike and a one-off 32,000-peso ($1662.96) bonus. Drivers are also calling for “paid […]

January 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Sarah Jaffe writes in The Nation about “The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way” for the ongoing LA Teachers’ Strike. In the wake of the financial crisis, a group of LA teachers formed the Union Power caucus to fight back against mass layoffs of teachers and other school staff. In 2014, the Union Power caucus […]

Worker Voice Beyond Wages, Hours and Terms and Conditions of Employment

Jan 17, 2019 Sharon Block

This week, United Teachers Los Angeles called their first strike in decades. While the parties are negotiating over wages and staffing, a central issue in the dispute is the much bigger question of underfunding of the public school system. Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, repairs to crumbling school buildings, and the hiring of […]

August 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois vetoed a bill that would have allowed graduate research assistants at the state’s public universities to join labor unions. Currently, graduate teaching assistants — but not research assistants — at the University of Illinois are unionized with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliate. […]

June 25, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Microsoft employees are pressuring the company to cancel its $19.4 million contract with ICE and institute a policy against working with clients who violate international human rights law. In an open letter to the company’s CEO, over 100 Microsoft employees wrote, “We are part of a growing movement, comprised of many across the industry, who […]

May 28, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, Chipotle has asked the Federal District Court of Colorado to exclude 2,814 workers from a wage theft lawsuit because these workers signed mandatory arbitration agreements barring them from participating in class action or collective lawsuits. In total, 10,000 Chipotle workers are participating in an ongoing […]

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