Edward Nasser is a student at Harvard Law School.
Confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General will begin today. NPR covers five things too look out for during the nomination hearings. The Washington Post reports that Trump and Sessions plan to restrict immigration from highly skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas. The New York Times will be live briefing the hearings.
Industry lobbyists are pushing to overturn the NLRB’s Browning-Ferris decision, which made it easier for unions to organize employees at franchises like McDonald’s, according to the Wall Street Journal. Andrew Puzder, Trump’s nomination for Secretary of Labor, has also been a prominent critic of the joint-employer doctrine.
Republican lawmakers in Congress may try to emulate what their party was able to accomplish in Kentucky, writes The Nation. That will spell trouble for workers around the country. Kentucky became the 27th state to pass a right to work law on Saturday, and Trump’s cabinet picks indicate his administration will take a similarly anti-labor stance.
President Obama will give his farewell address tonight in Chicago. NPR covers the history of the presidential farewell.
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March 12
EPA terminates contract with second-largest union; Florida advances bill restricting public sector unions; Trump administration seeks Supreme Court assistance in TPS termination.
March 11
The partial government shutdown results in TSA agents losing their first full paycheck; the Fifth Circuit upholds the certification of a class of former United Airline workers who were placed on unpaid leave for declining to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons during the pandemic; and an academic group files a lawsuit against the State Department over a policy that revokes and denies visas to noncitizens for their work in fact-checking and content moderation.
March 10
Court rules Kari Lake unlawfully led USAGM, voiding mass layoffs; Florida Senate passes bill tightening union recertification rules; Fifth Circuit revives whistleblower suit against Lockheed Martin.
March 9
6th Circuit rejects Cemex, Board may overrule precedents with two members.
March 8
In today’s news and commentary, a weak jobs report, the NIH decides it will no longer recognize a research fellows’ union, and WNBA contract talks continue to stall as season approaches. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that employers cut 92,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4 percent. A loss […]
March 6
The Harvard Graduate Students Union announces a strike authorization vote.