January 24th 2021
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Pressure continued mounting on corporations to cut off financial support to lawmakers who participated in last week’s challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory. The Washington Post reports that three major corporate donors—Marriott, the...
As millions of Americans attempt to forge some semblance of normal this Thanksgiving, Sentient Media outlines the human cost workers experience in preparing around 45 million turkeys for this year’s holiday. Like much of the meatpacking industry, turkey processing...
A statewide campaign in California aims to educate farmworkers about health, safety and labor rights amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to The Desert Sun. Volunteers and outreach workers will distribute PPE and and packets of information to workers in the...
The pandemic is causing healthcare workers to leave the profession, the New York Times reports. According to the NYT report, many doctors and nurses are retiring early or seeking other work because of conditions created by the pandemic. Some are concerned for their...
According to the Department of Labor, last week, an additional 732,000 people sought unemployment assistance for the first time. While this marks a decrease in new weekly claims, this number only tells part of the story. The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance...
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced a plan for a $1 trillion stimulus, which would include $250 billion in direct checks to Americans by the end of April. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Republican senators that he envisioned direct payments...
Donald Trump’s appointees on the National Labor Relations Board seem to have come to the conclusion that he’s going to be a one-term President, so they are racing as fast as they can to chip away at workers’ rights. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post nominating...
One week last December, President Trump’s NLRB reversed five significant Board precedents. It was the end of Board Chairman Phil Miscimarra’s term, and the Trump Administration had taken over less than a year before. The reversals themselves weren’t surprising —...
The Louisiana legislature passed a bill expanding the state’s prison labor program. The bill already passed the State Senate, and Governor John Bel Edwards is expected to sign it into law. Incarcerated individuals who currently work in the Louisiana prison system...
Today is equal pay day. The date each year symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. The National Committee on Pay Equity encourages people to wear red in honor of equal pay day. On Monday, the 9th Circuit...