August 5th 2021
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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...
Uber and other gig companies are rushing to pass a bill in the final weeks of Albany’s legislative session that would undermine labor standards for the growing millions of app-based workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and people of color. The companies, in...
A draft bill set to be introduced in the New York state legislature this week would create a tripartite process for delivery and ride-share workers at companies like Uber and Instacart to “unionize” without being classified as employees. The bill, reportedly backed...
The New York Times published a recap and analysis of President Biden’s “multitrillion-dollar suite of economic proposals” aimed at reinforcing, and reconstructing, the American middle class. The Administration, the Times reports, is capitalizing on rising...
In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was...
In January, Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California certified a class of more than 4,800 Uber drivers who alleged they were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees under California law. The...
Amazon workers are still voting in Bessemer – and have until the end of the month to cast their ballots – but the historic union campaign already appears to be a harbinger of future organizing efforts. The ripples of the union drive are being felt far beyond...
After a major legal defeat in Britain, Uber announced it will reclassify more than 70,000 UK drivers as “workers,” which will entitle the drivers to minimum wage, vacation pay and a pension plan. In February 2021 the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber behaved...
Following Britain’s Supreme Court’s ruling that Uber must classify its drivers as employees in order for them to be provided access to benefits like vacation pay, rest breaks, and a minimum wage, Bloomberg reported on the International Labor Organization’s (ILO)...