The New York Times reports that American-born Latinos now make up the majority of the Latino workforce in the country. While immigration rates have declined due to the economic recession, births among Mexicans in the U.S. have increased and contributed to the growing population of American-born Latinos. Since the end of the recession, American-born Latinos have gained 2.3 million jobs. Meanwhile, Latino immigrants lost 340,000 jobs but have gained 453,000 jobs since the economic recovery. In total, the study found that immigrant Latinos made up 49.7% of Latino workers in 2013, a marked decrease from 56% in 2007.
The Metropolitan Opera reported in a tax filing that its general manager, Peter Gelb, earned $1.8 million in pay and benefits in 2012. According to the Met, Gelb has since taken a pay cut. The announcement comes while the Met has sought to cut pay and benefits for its workers during what it calls “one of the biggest financial challenges in its 131-year history.” The Met employs 1,600 full-time and seasonal workers as well as 1,800 part-time workers. At the same time, the tax filing shows that three of the Met’s five highest-paid workers were members of Local I of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Unions continue to contest the Met’s proposals which call for changing work rules related to overtime and extra pay, altering health benefits, and capping pension benefits.
In international news, aircraft mechanics have called off a strike over wages and conditions against the airline Icelandair. The workers had called an initial 24-hour strike on June 16th after the airline failed to successfully negotiate a new contract with employees. In the wake of that strike, Icelandair canceled 65 flights in and out of Iceland’s main airport. However, workers decided to call off continuing to strike after the Icelandic government threatened to ban industrial action at the airline. The Icelandic government has intervened multiple times in collective bargaining in the transport sector in recent months, prompting criticism from opposition groups.
Thailand’s ruling military announced that it would set stricter enforcement of migrant labor in an effort to reduce undocumented workers, forced labor, and human trafficking. More than 150,000 Cambodians, who are present in the construction, fishing, and agriculture industries, have already fled the country after rumors of a military crackdown. A spokesperson for the United Nations’ International Organization of Migration characterized the scope of the exodus as “unprecedented” for the region.
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July 14
More circuits weigh in on two-step certification; Uber challengers Seattle deactivation ordinance.
July 13
APWU and USPS ratify a new contract, ICE barred from racial profiling in Los Angeles, and the fight continues over the dismantling of NIOSH
July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
the Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings; Secretary of Agriculture suggests Medicaid recipients replace deported migrant farmworkers; DHS ends TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]