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January 30, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

On Tuesday, around 7,800 healthcare workers walked off the job at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle to begin a three-day strike for better pay and working conditions. The work stoppage, led by Service Employees International Union 1199NW, is part of a larger strike against corporate giant Providence Health & Services, with some 13,000 employees expected […]

January 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Bloomberg Law reports that teacher strikes across the U.S. have led to higher bargained-for wages over the past two years. In 2018, teachers and other school staff across West Virginia went on strike to protest working conditions in the state’s schools. Similar strikes around the country followed, often assisted by social media and accompanied by […]

November 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Google announced on Friday that it would scale back its weekly all-hands-on-deck meetings. The weekly meetings, known as TGIF, allowed workers the opportunity to voice concerns about the company’s operation directly to executives. The meetings will now be held once per month, and will focus more narrowly on “product and business strategy.” The decision is […]

October 9, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

The New York Times and the Washington Post reported on a new study of American tax burdens by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabrieal Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley. The study analyzes the “effective” tax rates paid by Americans since the 1960s—a measure that accounts for not just federal income taxes but corporate […]

October 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The New York Times published a piece this week reviewing the re-emergence of a conversation about compensating unpaid domestic labor. While showcasing certain policy proposals by campaigning Democratic candidates, it traces the roots of these ideas to both the early-20th-century progressive era and the women’s movement in the 1970s. Among the ideas discussed are plans […]

July 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

The New York Times spotlighted a conflict within the labor movement over how unions should secure greater rights for Uber and Lyft drivers. S.E.I.U. has been meeting with Uber and Lyft to discuss the companies’ proposal to maintain the drivers’ status as independent contractors but allow the union to represent the drivers’ interests on certain […]

June 11, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that would have applied California state laws governing overtime to workers on offshore drilling platforms. Brian Newton had sued his employer, Parker Drilling Management Services, alleging that he was owed overtime pay for time spent on standby on an offshore oil rig. The issue before the […]

June 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Unions have been speaking out in the face of employer retaliation against union organizing. In Ohio, Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center has responded to a nurse, tech staff, and support staff strike by cutting job positions and paying replacement workers higher wages than the workers on strike. The hospital has also expressed interest in […]

February 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Employee pay and benefits comprise a declining percentage (52.7%) of the gross domestic income, even as unemployment rates remain low and demand for workers high. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the percentage figure for labor income fell again in 2018’s third quarter, for the fourth straight quarter. To translate the effects of this […]

January 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Monday the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal government workers, filed a wage-and-hour suit against the Trump administration over the government shutdown that started on December 22. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs, two federal corrections officers, and similarly situated employees whose work is deemed “essential” were not paid […]

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