Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
Postmates, the delivery start up, faces a new worker-classification lawsuit. Vanity Fair has a quick report. In related news, in the UK, Uber lost its appeal of a recent ruling that its drivers were not self-employed.
The Nation recaps a troubling new report from Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and Penn Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic about women migrants in the United States on temporary worker visas. Through surveys, the report documents the ways these workers are especially “vulnerable to abuses, exploitation, and human trafficking.”
Slate has a commentary arguing that billionaire Joe Ricketts’ decision to close Gothamist and DNAinfo could violate the NLRA under a narrow exception to the general rule that shutting down a business to stop a union is permissible. See Sharon Block and Ben Sachs’ comments on the shutdowns here.
In the wake of high-profile sexual harassment-related resignations and dismissals at the AFL-CIO and SEIU, Bloomberg writes about a wider culture of sexual harassment at the two unions and of promises to improve conditions for union employees.
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July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
the Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings; Secretary of Agriculture suggests Medicaid recipients replace deported migrant farmworkers; DHS ends TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.