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September 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Hundreds of dock workers at one of the largest ports in the United Kingdom walked off the job on Tuesday, launching a two-week strike in demand of higher wages. Since thousands of firms, including several transnational giants, rely on the port, the strike threatens to intensify the pressure on an already-strained global supply chain. What’s […]

UK Striker-Replacement Law: ‘Criminal Offence’ Turned ‘Option for Business’

Aug 26, 2022 Jason Vazquez and Tiran Bajgiran

Last July, the UK government adopted a new law enabling employment agency staff — workers employed by private staffing firms to fill temporary positions at other businesses — to replace strikers, which effectively amounts to state-sanctioned strike breaking. “This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business,” candidly tweeted business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, perhaps letting slip […]

September 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Happy Labor Day! Rebecca Burns writes in Truthout about why workers should celebrate this Labor Day. Burns points to the continued success of teachers strikes; successful private-sector strikes in a diverse range of industries; increased labor support for a Green New Deal; and potential gains through the 2020 elections as some of the reasons to […]

February 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Yesterday, teachers in Denver Public Schools walked off the job in the latest iteration of the teachers strikes that have swept the country. The strike, the city’s first in 25 years, follows over 14 months of negotiations between the teachers union and the school district that have focused on how to calculate base pay. Many […]

December 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

As the NLRB continues its comment period for a proposed rule to codify a more restrictive standard for joint employer status, NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb has voiced his view that the rule does not go far enough in insulating lead employers from labor law liability. In comments made yesterday, Robb said that a joint […]

December 6, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission voted this week to create a minimum pay standard for the approximately 80,000 drivers in the city working for transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via. The standard establishes a per-minute and per-mile formula that is expected to create a pay floor of $17.22 net […]

June 5, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Tomato pickers and labor activists from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will protest today outside of Wendy’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, during the company’s annual shareholder meeting to demand that the company join its Fair Food Program. The Fair Food Program, hailed by labor rights advocates as a successful enforcement model, requires retailers to buy from growers that […]

April 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Thousands of teachers from over thirty school districts rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Friday, calling for increased school funding as part of the #RedForEd movement. The Colorado Education Association, the federation of teachers’ unions in the state, explained that Colorado schools are underfunded by $822 million. In fact, only Oklahoma and Arizona spend less […]

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UK Striker-Replacement Law: ‘Criminal Offence’ Turned ‘Option for Business’

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