January 31, 2023 News & Commentary Apple faces ULP charge; public school teachers strike in Massachusetts; UAW runoff voting begins; a Jacobin article discusses a new app that could facilitate union organizing
January 20, 2023 News & Commentary Union membership in the United States is at its lowest since recordkeeping began, Starbucks workers at a store in Florida might get a bargaining order, and contract negotiations between pilots and major airlines experience varying levels of success.
January 19, 2023 News & Commentary OSHA levies $60,000 in fines against Amazon, the federal government investigates child labor trafficking, massive strikes begin in France against plans to raise the retirement age, and voluntary recognition of unions by employers is on the rise.
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
