A continuing labor dispute between members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and shipowners continues to cause delays at West Coast seaports, the New York Times reports. Employees and management offer different explanations for the delays. The union says that the owners are deliberately worsening congestion at the ports to gain advantage at the bargaining table. Shipowners have limited night-shift activities and reduced nighttime payroll. The shipowners say that workers are deliberately slowing their work. The Wall Street Journal reports that terminal operators at the port will suspend the loading and unloading of vessels for four days.
The New York Times reports that Halliburton plans to lay off about 7 percent of its workforce. The company says the cuts are in response to falling oil prices. Oil workers continue to strike in Houston, Politico reports. The United Steelworkers made a proposal to Shell Oil to remove contractors and adequately staff facilities to ensure safe operations. The union is still waiting for a response.
In Kansas, Governor Brownback has rescinded a former Governor Sebelius’s order prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the New York Times reports. Mr. Brownback says that Ms. Sebelius acted unilaterally and that legislators should not approve any expansion of anti-discrimination laws.
In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Scott Martelle describes the efforts of several members of the Republican Party to nullify new National Labor Relations Board regulations. The regulations, passed last year, would speed up the union election process and bar legal challenges before employees have an opportunity to vote.
In another Los Angeles Times op-ed, Michael McGough explores lower court’s applications of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, a case in which the Court found a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws. For example, a Cincinnati federal appeals court ruled in favor of employer InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, who fired an employee whose marriage had collapsed.
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July 9
In Today’s News and Commentary, the Supreme Court green-lights mass firings of federal workers, the Agricultural Secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers, and DHS ends Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans. In an 8-1 emergency docket decision released yesterday afternoon, the Supreme Court lifted an injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan […]
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 […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.
July 4
The DOL scraps a Biden-era proposed rule to end subminimum wages for disabled workers; millions will lose access to Medicaid and SNAP due to new proof of work requirements; and states step up in the noncompete policy space.
July 3
California compromises with unions on housing; 11th Circuit rules against transgender teacher; Harvard removes hundreds from grad student union.