Adi Kamdar is a student at Harvard Law School.
Today is the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and labor is heavily represented. Monday’s speaker’s list includes AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, AFT president Randi Weingarten, AFSCME president Lee Saunders, Building Trades president Sean McGarvey, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry, and NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia. Winning over labor is crucial, especially after newly tapped VP pick Tim Kaine expressed agreement with provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership before renouncing his support for the deal soon after.
Meanwhile, those staying tuned to their mobile devices or taxi cab televisions in Philadelphia will see a flurry of ads regarding minimum wage waivers for union workers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The ads are sponsored by the Worforce Fairness Institute, “which has for years fought union-backed legislation in Washington.”
Roughly $66,000. That’s how much it’ll cost per employee for banks to move their British staff abroad post-Brexit, a consulting firm estimated, according to Bloomberg. This price includes the “cost of relocating staff, hiring and firing other employees and setting up new offices in cities that could include Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris or Frankfurt.” Many banks have threatened—or are planning—to move out of the U.K. in order to maintain free access to the rest of the European market.
A Bloomberg video talks about how the labor force participation rate is at its lowest rate in 30 years, and the U.S. birth rate is at its lowest in a hundred. The commentator notes that, because of factors like the low birth rate, there will be a continued threat to labor participation unless we look to immigration to fill some much-needed gaps.
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March 13
Republican Senators urge changes on OSHA heat standard; OpenAI and building trades announce partnership on data center construction; forced labor investigations could lead to new tariffs
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 […]