Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will not resign but will seek to form a minority government after her party lost its parliamentary majority in yesterday’s election. The future of Brexit and recent calls to limit immigration are now less clear. The results were seen as a repudiation of May’s policies but also as a victory for Labour and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, who ran on a left-populist platform that included calls to re-nationalize industries and to encourage worker co-ops.
Trump is expected to nominate Cheryl Stanton, a former Bush administration lawyer, to head the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Stanton is the current director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce.
Chicago’s unionized charter school teachers are in the process of voting on a deal to join the Chicago Teachers Union, which has vocally opposed charter schools. If the deal is approved by CTU members and teachers at the 10 unionized charter schools (final results might be unknown until the fall), CTU and charter school teachers would join forces but would continue to operate under separate contracts.
Workers at the popular Washington-area Founding Farmers restaurants sued the company Tuesday alleging violations to overtime and sick-leave laws. As the Washington Post notes, Founding Farmers is the most recent of several high-profile restaurant groups to face similar allegations.
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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 […]