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Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

August 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a move to express solidarity with Uber Drivers, Uniting Church told its workers yesterday to stop using Uber, citing the company’s “unethical foundations.” The Church is the largest non-government provider of services to the community in all of Australia. The Church pointed to the recent “Uber Files” report and Uber’s practices of mistreating its […]

August 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and analysis of the effect of remote work on women. Today California farmworkers will march 19 miles […]

June 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the country, kicked off on Sunday in Philadelphia and wraps up later today. The quadrennial convention presents a democratic forum in which delegates representing the AFL-CIO’s dozens of affiliated unions throughout the […]

June 7, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news and commentary, the Supreme Court unanimously sides with a Southwest Airlines worker in an FAA dispute; Genwa workers in Los Angeles win their first contract; and Planned Parenthood opposes unionization in Massachusetts. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Southwest Airlines employee Latrice Saxon on Monday in a case involving the […]

June 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

On Wednesday, the NLRB issued a complaint alleging that Amazon engaged in illegal conduct as part of its attempts to discourage unionization at the JFK8 facility, which nonetheless successfully voted to unionize, as Kevin reported on in April. The complaint stated Amazon unlawfully forced employees to sit through captive audience meetings, promised employees benefits if […]

Paving the Way for Rideshare Cooperatives

May 18, 2022 Kelsey MacKinnon

The rideshare industry is plagued with concerns over worker exploitation. Though rideshare companies promise drivers autonomy and flexibility, they more often deliver meager wages, a lack of employment benefits, and opaque decision-making processes that can result in sudden changes in pay rates or deactivation from platforms. The platform cooperativism movement calls for a simple solution […]

The Shameful Defeat of David Weil’s Nomination

May 3, 2022 Sara Tsai

On March 30, 2022, David Weil’s nomination to head the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division was defeated in an unexpected 47–53 vote, marking the first time one of President Biden’s nominees was defeated in a floor vote. In an unexpected twist, three Democratic Senators — Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and Mark Kelly — joined the […]

Uber Teams Up with an Unlikely Ally: Taxis

Apr 15, 2022 Kelsey MacKinnon

Uber recently announced a deal to list all New York City yellow cabs on its app. Given the hostile history between Uber and the taxi industry, this partnership comes as a surprise to many. But it is not a one-off — in February 2022, Uber revealed its goal of putting every taxi in the world […]

March 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times reported that the White House will request that Congress pass a new minimum wealth tax on the ultra-rich as part of the Biden Administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Called the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the tax would stipulate that households worth more than $100 million pay a rate […]

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