Edward Nasser is a student at Harvard Law School.
The Wall Street Journal reported today on “The State of ‘Good Jobs’ in America.” There are more than 30 million of these “good jobs”, which pay more than $35,000 and do not require a four year degree. The problem, though, is that there are more than 75 million Americans without four year degrees competing for those jobs, roughly 2.5 people for each position. Money magazine reports that men hold 70% of these jobs, while white workers hold roughly 65%.
In more ambiguous news for workers, the Wall Street Journal also reported today on the increasing concentration of high paying tech jobs in just eight cities. Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, Austin, Raleigh, Washington, Baltimore and Boston — account for more than 27% of the listings for U.S. tech jobs that pay more than $100,000 a year.
The Ninth Circuit held on Monday that ICTIS Oregon Inc. couldn’t bring an antitrust counterclaim against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association in a dispute over longshoremen’s work in Portland, according to Law360. The case is ILWU et al. v. ICTSI Oregon Inc., case number 14-35504 in the U.S. District Court for Oregon. The panel said a nonstatutory exemption in the Sherman Act protected the unions’ allegedly monopolistic actions from scrutiny. The opinion can be read here.
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September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.
September 9
Ninth Circuit revives Trader Joe’s lawsuit against employee union; new bill aims to make striking workers eligible for benefits; university lecturer who praised Hitler gets another chance at First Amendment claims.