August 15th 2022
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The United States Senate voted 68 to 29 on Monday to confirm Marty Walsh, former Mayor of Boston and union leader, as the Secretary of Labor. As a brief history to Secretary Walsh’s labor roots, CNN explains that Walsh first joined the Laborers’ Union Local 223 at...
For years, Amazon promised its Fresh and Prime Now gig delivery drivers they would receive all customer tips. Instead, Amazon diverted these tips to cover base wages, according to a complaint against Amazon by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month. The...
Studies show that employers steal billions each year from their employees, most often by failing to pay the minimum wage or overtime. Wage theft figures from the ten largest states alone reach $8 billion, a figure nearly half as large as all other forms of property...
Yesterday, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Jennifer Abruzzo, Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives for the Communications Workers of America (CWA), to serve as the next General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Biden’s...
Union members in Florida are making a final push to get out the vote for Joe Biden, CBS News reports. The unions are attempting to reach infrequent voters who are registered but have not yet cast a ballot in a state where 7.8 million people have already voted....
Yesterday marked an eventful occasion for workers’ rights advocates in Sacramento, as California Governor Gavin Newsom moved on a number of major employment rights bills at his desk. Among other measures, Newsom signed legislation to require businesses of...
This week, the Economic Policy Institute published an analysis of the growing role state attorneys general (AGs) play in enforcing workers’ rights. Authored by Terri Gerstein, who heads the State and Local Enforcement Project at Harvard Law School's Labor and...
As unemployment benefits declined this week, lawmakers have remained at an impasse over the contents of Congress’s upcoming relief bill. Republicans thus far have offered to extend expanded unemployment benefits at a reduced $400 per week and have proposed...
Though the jobs report released Thursday shows promising growth, economists and policy-makers are warning that the report only reflects the numbers captured in mid-June before the recent virus spike, and that layoffs will accelerate as states begin to close again....
As many readers experienced, OnLabor's website was down for several hours yesterday, a problem caused by a flood of new access requests that overwhelmed the page. Much as we would like to think that the sudden spike in OnLabor traffic was legitimate, the more...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers are the nation’s largest employer of immigrant labor. According to the New York Times at least 60,000 immigrants every year work in detention centers through federally-authorized “Voluntary Work...
Yesterday a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unanimously concluded that the Board lacked jurisdiction over a labor dispute arising out of operations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Carriers at O’Hare contract with outside...