April 12th 2021
Tag
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)...
In Bessemer, Alabama, the Amazon unionization campaign continued apace this weekend – and so did Amazon’s efforts to thwart union organizers and its own workers. Amazon has adopted increasingly extreme measures to ward off the impending unionization, including...
As has been widely reported, the British Supreme Court ruled today that London Uber drivers are "workers," and not independent contractors, within the meaning of British law. Accordingly, these drivers are entitled to a host of British employment law protections...
Last week, 861,000 workers nationwide applied for unemployment assistance, 13,000 more than the previous week. This increase in applications is partly a result of a stagnating job market, one that now has 10 million fewer jobs due to the pandemic. In addition, some...
Four app-based drivers and the SEIU are challenging Prop. 22, the California ballot initiative passed last year that exempts app-based drivers from state employment law and reclassifies them as independent contractors. They argue the initiative is...
Four gig drivers, the Service Employees International Union, and the SEIU California State Council renewed their challenge to Proposition 22—the California ballot measure purchased by Uber, Lyft and DoorDash that allows their drivers to be classified as independent...
The fight over California’s Prop 22 – which made permanent Uber and Lyft’s misclassification of their workers – is not over. A group of gig workers and unions, led by the SEIU, have filed suit in California seeking to overturn the initiative, saying that it...
The NFL will be playing Wednesday night football this week after the league pushed Tuesday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens – already postponed twice after being scheduled for Thanksgiving due to a COVID outbreak in the Ravens...
Following the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, focus has pivoted away from the tumult of electoral politics to the work of governance. Given the likelihood of a Republican-majority in the Senate, the incoming Administration is likely to face difficulty...
Today is election day. We’re paying special attention to whether Proposition 22 in California passes or not. Polls show that the vote on the ballot measure, which Patrick Redford of Defector describes as an effort by gig companies to “etch the permanent...