July 5th 2022
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After 18 months of negotiation, including a pro-union intervention from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and a one-day strike, more than 200 employees at Boston’s prestigious Museum of Fine Arts ratified a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)...
The latest version of the government’s budget bill for fiscal year 2022 dispenses with increases in funding for the NLRB included in previous versions of the bill. The new version proposes maintaining the board’s funding at $274 million, the same amount the Board...
On Thursday, tech workers at The New York Times overwhelmingly voted to certify their union – the Times Tech Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York (which also represents Times editorial workers) – as their exclusive collective bargaining...
The first Starbucks in the United States voted to unionize yesterday after a long fight at three Buffalo, New York area Starbucks stores. The Elmwood Avenue location in Buffalo voted in favor of unionizing, one store voted against unionizing, and the third store’s...
Tuesday was election day in America, and millions of voters in cities and states across the country cast their ballots to select their next mayors, city councilors, school board members, congressional representatives (in Ohio and Florida), and, in Virginia and New...
New York City cab drivers announced a hunger strike this week, after having occupied a sidewalk outside City Hall operating a 24-hour picket line for over a month, calling on the de Blasio administration to provide a more robust response to the industry’s...
This weekend, as first reported by Deadline, all eyes are on Hollywood. After an unprecedented strike authorization vote earlier this month, in which roughly 92% of eligible members voted and 99% of those who voted authorized a strike, IATSE announced that it...
A record 2.9% of U.S. workers left their jobs in August, marking the highest month-to-month quits rate of the century. According to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), some 4.2 million workers resigned from work, including over...
Over 24,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly authorized a strike. The vote, led by the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health...
John Deere workers in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas voted to reject a six-year contract last night, the Des Moines Register reports. 90% of members opposed the contract in the vote. As Labor Notes reported, 99% of voting members voted in favor of authorizing a strike...
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), responded to a letter by members of Congress urging the FTC (and the DOJ) to implement certain changes in order to protect workers organizing from antitrust enforcement. As Nikita explained in a previous post,...
Six U.S. senators, including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have called on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate allegations that Amazon.com Inc. fails to make adequate provisions for pregnant employees at its...