Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
After the recent slashing of the corporate tax rate, companies continue to announce bonuses for workers. Jet Blue (whose flight attendants filed for an NLRB election in December) and Southwest join the list. Yet the union representing Southwest’s technical workers pointed out that some workers, who are awaiting an overdue collective bargaining agreement, haven’t had a pay raise in several years.
Bloomberg Law talked with new NLRB GC Peter Robb for a piece that recaps many of the Board’s actions since Trump’s inauguration and predicts where the Board might go next.
While we wait for the Supreme Court’s decision in Murphy Oil, Epic Systems, and Earnst and Young, Simon Lazarus takes up the cases for The American Prospect, wondering:
With stakes as high as these, why has there not been more attention paid to the Epic Systems trilogy? Likely, much of the answer is that the Chamber and its allies have largely got away with spinning the case as simply a minor extension of the conservative majority’s three decades of decisions weakening restrictions on contractual mandatory arbitration provisions.
The Atlantic asks, “Why is the U.S. So Bad at Worker Retraining?” Federal job training programs continue to be popular among policymakers as means of addressing labor market disjunction, but studies have found job training programs to be unevenly effective and particularly ineffective for blue collar workers. Employer-side solutions might be a better way to address accelerating globalization and automation, the article hints.
Inspired by a recent report about the rising number of nurses who are men since the 1960s, the Upshot interviewed a dozen male nurses in the Pacific Northwest, a region with nursing recruitment programs that target men.
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June 2
Proposed budgets for DOL and NLRB show cuts on the horizon; Oregon law requiring LPAs in cannabis dispensaries struck down.
June 1
In today’s news and commentary, the Ninth Circuit upholds a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration, a federal judge vacates parts of the EEOC’s pregnancy accommodation rules, and video game workers reach a tentative agreement with Microsoft. In a 2-1 decision issued on Friday, the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration […]
May 30
Trump's tariffs temporarily reinstated after brief nationwide injunction; Louisiana Bill targets payroll deduction of union dues; Colorado Supreme Court to consider a self-defense exception to at-will employment
May 29
AFGE argues termination of collective bargaining agreement violates the union’s First Amendment rights; agricultural workers challenge card check laws; and the California Court of Appeal reaffirms San Francisco city workers’ right to strike.
May 28
A proposal to make the NLRB purely adjudicatory; a work stoppage among court-appointed lawyers in Massachusetts; portable benefits laws gain ground
May 27
a judge extends a pause on the Trump Administration’s mass-layoffs, the Fifth Circuit refuses to enforce an NLRB order, and the Texas Supreme court extends workplace discrimination suits to co-workers.