January 12, 2023 News & Commentary NYC nurses return to work; NLRB rejects Amazon’s attempt to overturn union election at JFK8; Tesla fails to derail a workplace discrimination suit; CA Supreme Court is asked to way in on minimum wage for non-convicted inmates
January 10, 2023 News & Commentary NYC Nurses continue their 7,000-strong strike but may already be close to a deal, NY voters support increasing the minimum wage, and graduate students at Yale University vote for a union after decades of organizing.
January 4, 2023 News & Commentary Strikes in the United Kingdom continue into 2023, British rail workers strike, and Microsoft video game workers unionize.
January 3, 2023 News & Commentary Starbucks ends the year making headlines for the wrong reasons; Trader Joe's workers in Minneapolis walk off the job; Republicans plan to attack Congressional workers' right to organize; and the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments for the important Glacier Northwest case next week.
December 22, 2022 News & Commentary New York becomes the fourth state to mandate "pay transparency"; Biden’s Senate nominees for the EEOC and DOL are blocked for the year; Crumbl cookies violated child labor regulations; 100 demands for arbitration have been filed against Twitter. Internationally, in the U.K, tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike amid a cost of living crisis; workers in Iran continue to have an outsize role in the ongoing uprising.
December 21, 2022 News & Commentary University of California academic workers reach a tentative labor agreement and Congress proposes a $25 million increase to the NLRB budget increase in the omnibus spending bill.
December 20, 2022 News & Commentary New York City Uber drivers went on a 24-hour strike yesterday; Tesla allegedly fired workers for criticizing the company and CEO Musk
December 7, 2022 News & Commentary New York Times workers plan to walk out Thursday amid contract talks, Delta pilots reach a TA, and video game workers unionize.
November 29, 2022 News & Commentary President Biden and Congress seek to impose an agreement on rail workers to prevent shut-down despite the workers' rejection of the deal, and workers at Amazon's largest air hub are organizing despite facing enormous corporate opposition.