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Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

Jun 20, 2022 Eric Jang

The legal cannabis industry is currently one of the fastest-growing employers in the U.S. Since 2017, the number of Americans working with cannabis has grown each year by at least 27%. In just the last year alone, the industry grew by 33% and now employs up to 428,000 American workers. Part of the reason for […]

June 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, Apple workers in Maryland became the first retail employees at the tech company to unionize; the Mexican Workers’ League submitted a USMCA Rapid Response petition against VU manufacturing due to the company’s unlawful efforts to impose a company-friendly union; and thousands of labor unionists and activists gathered in Chicago […]

June 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, the Starbucks union says CEO Howard Schultz violated labor laws, a nonprofit pushes Tesla to respect union rights, and a WaPo report covers Chris Smalls, one of the Amazon warehouse organizers who “made unionizing cool as fuck.” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made headlines last week when, in a public interview […]

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 […]

How Politics Ruin Union Financial Reporting

Jun 1, 2022 Eric Jang

The Office of Labor-Management Standard’s (OLMS) positions on union financial reporting and disclosure requirements resemble a pendulum, swinging back and forth in tune with the duopolistic nature of US elections. By facilitating a political battle between Democrats and Republicans over union financial reporting rules, the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) has become overly complex […]

May 24, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, TIME Magazine workers call off threat to strike; Activision-Blizzard workers vote to unionize; Los Angeles strippers look to organize; and McDonald’s workers in Florida stage a walkout. TIME Magazine workers announced Monday that they would no longer be walking out on May 23rd if management had not agreed to a […]

May 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, the United Steelworkers union filed charges with the NLRB against Chevron; the Third Circuit ruled that tweets by the publisher of the Federalist were not unlawful threats to workers; and President Biden urged Hyundai to partner with American union workers. On May 20, the United Steelworkers union (USW) filed […]

Tenants’ Right to Organize: The Regulation of Tenants’ Unions in San Francisco

May 13, 2022 David Popoola

“It’s a union at home. . . . We’re all workers who can unionize at work. Now we can unionize at work and at home.” These words, from a tenant and organizer of a local San Francisco tenants’ union, epitomize the potential impact that tenants’ unions can have on the lives of renters. In much […]

May 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, Amazon terminates two union-supporting employees at JFK8; Michigan Starbucks workers receive a union election date; TIME Magazine workers threaten to strike; and Tudor’s Biscuit World hit with a complaint from the NLRB. Amazon continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons after the Amazon Labor Union’s historic win at JFK8 […]

May 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, TikTok has a work culture problem; Amazon fires managers after historic union victory; and unions rally ahead of the 2022 election season. TikTok has a work culture problem, according to a recent exposé in the Wall Street Journal. Employees have complained of sleep deprivation driven by weekend workloads and hours […]

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