May 19th 2022
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As “Striketober” rolls on, New York City taxi drivers are escalating their campaign for relief from debts they incurred to purchase medallions whose value has plummeted in the wake of Uber and Lyft’s expansion. The drivers—primarily immigrants and people of...
On Tuesday, former Apple employee Ashley Gjovik filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that certain company policies and statements from management that restrict disclosure of internal company information violate federal labor...
On September 29, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum outlining her position that student-athletes, or “Players at Academic Institutions,” are employees under the NLRA. “My intent in issuing this memo,” Abruzzo wrote, “is to help educate the...
The United States could “plunge into an immediate recession,” according to one analysis released Tuesday by Moody’s Analytics, if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling this fall. The debt ceiling, first established in 1917 and raised more than 100 times since...
On Thursday, Biden announced plans for a monumental vaccine mandate that could apply to as many as 100 million Americans. Under the mandate, employers with more than 100 workers will need to either be vaccinated or else face weekly testing; businesses will also be...
On Monday morning, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which has already been administered to more than 100 million people in the country. According to the FDA’s news release, the...
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...
In the aftermath of the unexpected death of Richard Trumka on Thursday, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., as noted by the New York Times earlier today, faces a moment of decision – a “crossroads,” in the words of the Times. Despite Trumka’s impassioned and experienced leadership,...
As Nikita reported this weekend, the federal eviction moratorium has now lapsed. An estimated 11 million renters — a figure which amounts to one in six renters — now stand at risk of eviction. The executive branch is unable to act, per a Supreme Court order that...
The federal government joined a growing list of government employers instituting vaccine requirements for workers. Federal employees and on-site contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear masks and undergo testing, President Biden announced. This comes...
Since hitting its peak of more than 3 million shots per day in mid-April, the mass-vaccination campaign has dwindled and waned in the United States, dropping to a current rate of around half a million daily jabs, alarming government officials both in the Biden...