Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and a criminal sexual act after a trial in New York. The jury acquitted him of the most serious charge of being a sexual predator but he still faces a prison sentence of five to 25 years. Two years after the movie producer was accused by dozens of women of sexually assaulting and harassing them over the course of his career, the #MeToo movement, sparked by the revelations about Weinstein, has grown to expose and fight workplace harassment and abuse all across society. Fatima Goss Graves, the president and chief executive officer of the National Women’s Law Center, told Bloomberg Law that #MeToo and the changes it has brought are “much bigger than any one person — even someone who is as powerful as Harvey Weinstein.’’

Workers at the progressive news network The Young Turks are attempting to unionize and their influential co-founder and media personality Cenk Uygur is not happy about it. At an all-hands meeting Monday, Uygur apparently grew emotional and urged workers not to unionize. He told HuffPost that the network, like all digital media companies, is “in a precarious position,” and thus can’t afford the cost of a unionized workplace. The workers are organized with IATSE, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, who Uygur has accused of bias against him, stemming from IATSE’s endorsement of his opponent in a race for a vacated California congressional seat. IATSE denied any bias and urged The Young Turks to voluntarily recognize the union.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Walgreens’s firing of an employee for his refusal to work on the Sabbath. The Eleventh Circuit ruled that Walgreens made a reasonable attempt to accommodate the employee’s religion and upheld the firing. Justice Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, issued an opinion agreeing with the rejection of this particular case, but nonetheless saying that he would be open to reviewing the standard under which an employer must accommodate an employee’s religious practices. Currently, the employer can avoid accommodating an employee’s religious practice if it imposes more than a “de minimis” cost on the employer. 

ProPublica reports on a United States Postal Service practice of firing or forcing out roughly 44,000 workers who were injured on the job, and discriminating against at additional 15,130 by changing work duties or accommodations. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that USPS had unlawfully discriminated against workers on the basis of disability under a program that lasted from 2006 to 2011, but USPS is contesting the claims. The EEOC plans to go through 28,000 claims one-by-one.

Lolita and Jacob both wrote about the Culinary Union Local 226 and their involvement in the Nevada caucus last weekend. In the aftermath of the caucuses, Hamilton Nolan profiled the union for In These Times. Despite much ink being spilled over the Culinary Union’s refusal to endorse any candidate running for the democratic nomination and their critique of Bernie Sanders’s healthcare plan, Nolan argued that “[t]he union does not exist to serve the politicians. The politicians exist to serve the union. The union has built a wondrous machine to ensure that it stays that way.”