Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb may be seeking to reorganize the NLRB’s field offices, Bloomberg reported yesterday. His proposal involves consolidating regional offices and placing at the top of each an official who would report directly to him. This could strengthen central control over regional offices and reduce the number of officials who have the authority to issue complaints and decisions regarding union representations.
The results of the union election at the LA Times are expected today. Although workers at many major U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are unionized, this is the first time that the LA Times’‘s journalists have voted on a union.
El Salvador announced earlier this week that it is working on a deal with Qatar to take as temporary workers Salvadorans who will lose their temporary protected status (TPS) in the United States in September 2019. On January 8, the Trump Administration said that it would terminate TPS for around 200,000 Salvadorans.
CNBC gives in-depth instructions to gig workers, most of whom do not have taxes withheld, on calculating and making estimated tax payments. In other gig-related news, The Boston Review has an essay, “The Gig Economy’s Great Delusion,” which critiques the way platforms and other companies have positioned gig jobs as a social safety net.
A new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute estimates that tipped workers will lose $5.6 billion–$4.6 billion of that lost by women–per year under the Department of Labor’s proposed tip rule.
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February 13
Sex workers in Nevada fight to become the nation’s first to unionize; industry groups push NLRB to establish a more business-friendly test for independent contractor status; and UFCW launches an anti-AI price setting in grocery store campaign.
February 12
Teamsters sue UPS over buyout program; flight attendants and pilots call for leadership change at American Airlines; and Argentina considers major labor reforms despite forceful opposition.
February 11
Hollywood begins negotiations for a new labor agreement with writers and actors; the EEOC launches an investigation into Nike’s DEI programs and potential discrimination against white workers; and Mayor Mamdani circulates a memo regarding the city’s Economic Development Corporation.
February 10
San Francisco teachers walk out; NLRB reverses course on SpaceX; NYC nurses secure tentative agreements.
February 9
FTC argues DEI is anticompetitive collusion, Supreme Court may decide scope of exception to forced arbitration, NJ pauses ABC test rule.
February 8
The Second Circuit rejects a constitutional challenge to the NLRB, pharmacy and lab technicians join a California healthcare strike, and the EEOC defends a single better-paid worker standard in Equal Pay Act suits.