January 28th 2022
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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...
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and United Steelworkers President Tom Conway are kicking off the USW's "We Supply America" bus tour to advocate for the current congressional infrastructure bill. The bus tour partly hopes to highlight the connection between...
President Joe Biden intends to nominate Gwynne Wilcox, a union-side labor lawyer, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the White House announced yesterday. As a senior partner at Levy Ratner and associate general counsel for SEIU 1199 United Healthcare...
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union has filed an unfair labor practice claim against New York Public Radio after NYPR laid off 14 employees, including a shop steward. In a tweet, the union alleges that “was fired for...