Tascha Shahriari-Parsa is a student at Harvard Law School.
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May 29
Iowa joins a growing list of states that are relaxing back child labor laws; Los Angeles union workers join the Writers Guild of America strikers in a show of solidarity; Alaska’s Supreme Court rules that an executive order requiring employees to opt in to union membership was illegal
May 28
The Sixth Circuit adopts a new standard for collective action FLSA claims; a report highlights “squalid conditions” for tea pickers in Sri Lanka; Amazon shareholders reject resolutions calling for workers’ rights assessments
May 26
New York Times reaches an agreement with the NYT Guild; Governor Walz vetoes a ride-share workers’ protections bill; Bloomberg reports a slowdown at the DOL; workers at a Barnes & Noble, a Chicago museum, and an REI vote to unionize.
May 25
New York Times reporting covers the corporate anti-union campaigns; American Airlines pilots reach a preliminary agreement on a new contract; and the WGA strike continues.
May 23
In today’s News and Commentary, NLRB prosecutors filed a complaint against Amazon for violating federal labor laws, and resident physicians at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York went on strike. A new complaint by NLRB prosecutors alleges that Amazon changed its policies around access to its warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and its policies around paid […]
May 22
In this weekend’s news: the Minnesota legislature passes a labor bill offering protections for ride-share drivers, Bandcamp employees elect a union, and a gig company in San Francisco settles misclassification suits. Following the passage of an omnibus labor bill on Tuesday, the Minnesota legislature passed a bill guaranteeing ride-share drivers a minimum wage and other […]