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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 […]

Mexico Labor Law Reform & the USMCA — An American Explainer

Jun 3, 2022 Maxwell Ulin

Last month, U.S. trade authorities filed a complaint with Mexican officials to address labor violations at a major Panasonic auto plant in Mexico. The petition marks the third U.S. labor rights complaint against Mexico under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which established new measures to ensure that Mexico follows through on promised union law reforms. […]

May 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

A Sunday New York Times article details the ongoing efforts to unionize Apple store locations throughout the country and the increasingly drastic– but unfortunately predictable – tactics the company has adopted to forestall the fledgling nationwide campaigns. “Two decades after redefining retail with sleek architecture and concierge tech support,” the Times writes, “Apple is being […]

August 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was widely seen as a critical test case for the agreement’s unprecedented […]

June 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has published its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) to its website this morning. The rule mandates that covered employers implement comprehensive COVID-19 safety plans, install barriers and improved ventilation, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees, enforce social distancing, and grant employees paid time off for vaccinations and […]

May 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced that members had voted to advance three nominees for labor-policy posts in the Biden Administration. The Committee voted 14-8 in favor of the nomination of Jocelyn Samuels for Democratic Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and by the same margin […]

May 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

At a business-journalism conference yesterday, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh spoke out strongly against worker misclassification. Secretary Walsh referred to misclassifying gig workers as one of the “most serious issues” undermining the economy, denying workers access to “critical benefits and protections.” The comments serve as a follow-up to his claim last month that many gig workers […]

December 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

As early voting for the Senate runoff elections is starting in Georgia, the American Prospect wrote about how labor unions are seeking to persuade working class Americans in the state. It highlighted the efforts of members of the state’s AFL-CIO leadership, who exclaimed that voting for the Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, is […]

December 11, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Yesterday, Sejal wrote about how House Democrats and the Trump Administration are about to agree on a trade deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which the President views as a replacement for NAFTA. Bloomberg reports that while AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is on board—which was key to Democratic support for the deal—not all unions agree. […]

March 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

A group of labor unions on Tuesday secured a temporary injunction blocking portions of the lame-duck laws that Wisconsin Republicans passed to limit the powers of Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul following the election victories of the two Democrats. A Wisconsin state judge issued the injunction in a 49-page ruling, concluding that […]

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