October 19th 2021
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In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social spending plan promises to be one of “the most consequential piece[s] of legislation” passed in decades, especially for workers. But Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have refused to join their party...
As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
A new piece by Vice details how the Teamsters Union has thwarted Amazon’s expansion efforts nationwide despite recent failures by the movement to unionize the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse earlier this year. The wins – such as getting Fort Wayne, Indiana to...
Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition...
State legislatures are playing an outsized role in American politics, the New York Times reports. While Republicans are out of power in Washington by a slim margin, they control 30 state legislatures, 26 of which will redraw congressional districts (compared to...
On Friday, a California Superior Court judge – the state’s trial court system – held that Prop. 22, which, among other provisions, permitted gig companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and others to classify their workers as independent contractors rather...
Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees...
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided,...
Despite increased demand for ridesharing services, many Lyft and Uber drivers are not back on the roads, CNBC reports. A number of factors explain why the companies’ driver capacities have fallen by approximately 40%. Some former drivers said that they remained...
SEIU Local 888 has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations against the city of Boston for not seeking the union's input nor bargaining over the city's COVID-19 reopening plan. The city has already faced criticism for being inflexible in...
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...