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Today’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018

Jul 20, 2018 Jenny Braun

For the discriminatory loss of early retirement benefits, the New York State Nurses Association has won a $20.8 million-dollar settlement from New York City. The city repeatedly denied requests from the Assoc. to classify nursing as a “physically taxing” job, and thus denied nurses early retirement (at age 50). The New York Times reports that […]

May 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, NLRB v. Murphy Oil, and Ernst & Young, LLP v. Morris continued to generate reactions on Tuesday. David Leonhardt explained in The New York Times that the ruling makes Corporate America more powerful at the expense of workers and reminded readers that the decision would have gone […]

February 16, 2018
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

Yesterday, the Senate rejected a White House immigration proposal that would have increased border security, placed new limits on legal migration like family-based immigration and the diversity visa lottery program, and provided a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers. The Senate also rejected two other immigration measures. Also yesterday, AirBnb cafeteria workers ratified a […]

UAW Loss at Nissan

Aug 7, 2017 Sharon Block

Workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi voted “overwhelmingly” against representation by the United Auto Workers last week. The loss marks a very disappointing outcome to a years-long organizing drive by the UAW and yet another set back for the labor movement’s attempt to bring union representation to manufacturing workers in the South. It […]

August 3, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

According to the Washington Examiner, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi will vote today on whether or not they should join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. Nearly 4,000 workers will be voting, and the election will be concluded by Friday. While unions have struggled in the South due to right-to-work laws, a victory […]

Does Nissan Believe Americans Are Second Class Citizens?

Jul 19, 2017 Sharon Block

Workers at the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi should have a big decision to make within the next couple of weeks – whether they want to be represented by the UAW and start a new chapter in their relationship with their employer. The UAW petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election to […]

July 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Emily Miller

The United Auto Workers announced Tuesday that employees at a Nissan plant in Mississippi have filed a petition for a union election. The New York Times reports that the U.A.W. has been working to unionize the plant since 2012 and criticized, in a statement, “a pattern of labor abuses by Nissan against its predominantly African-American work […]

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